We had the priviledge of hosting our good friends, Kyle and Noel Becchetti for a short (but fun) time Monday (don't they look happy?). They are true rolling stones and we were so glad to be a a bit of moss on their busy itinerary!For, I don't know, umpteen, years, or so (13, more or less), they ran Center for Student Missions, which necessitated lots of traveling, which seems to suit them, just fine, thank you. CSM is an organization that provides an inner-city ministry experience for young people in nine cities in North America, Houston to Toronto, San Francisco to New York. Noel was, until very recently, President, and Kyle is finishing her role as the Queen of Everything, the director of all the operations.
This year, they have been in transition from their ministry with CSM to a new ministry (for them) called Truthseekers, Int'l. It's an organization based in India (New Delhi), run by Indians, which seeks to teach people (especially the "Other Backwards Castes, or OBCs"--about 700 million people--only about 1/10th of the planet!) about Jesus and to abolish the millenia-old caste system in India (is that all?), which is justified by the Hindu religion. It's an exciting and fascinating story, which you can read by going to http://www.truthseekersna.org/index.cfm?pg=1 and reading "about us". Noel and Kyle will head up the fundraising efforts in North America--under "about us", go to "Meet the Truthseekers (North America)". And get involved, if you want to!
This means that, in addition to traveling around the US, meeting with churches and other groups, they'll be off to India on a regular basis. They've been there this year, already, to check out the program. So, if you think your church or group would like to hear about this remarkable work, they'll be happy to come and tell you all about it.
So, we talked and laughed and ate, as usual. Then, next morning, they were gone. No worries! We have many ways to keep in touch. Playing Scrabulous has been one of them. Then, they'll be along again, someday...
