We woke up early Tuesday morning to leave for the airport, and got all our things packed, but our driver hadn’t arrived! After waiting a little while a quick phone call woke him up and got him on his way to pick us up. Pastor Alfred and Jeff and Noah were headed home, but my plans kept me in India for 3 more weeks. It was a little bit hard parting after spending a week together. But we didn’t have to part until we arrived in Chennai. It was sad to leave all the deaf Bible Workers… One of them had taught me the signs for the alphabet in Indian Sign. I didn’t learn very many other Indian signs, although some of them are the same, many are different. I wished I could stay longer and see them working in the field. But our driver had arrived and our time had come to leave. After saying goodbyes to our deaf friends and the people there at the blind school we drove out the gate waving goodbye.

The roads were almost empty as it was 5:30 in the morning, and we made good time. When there were closed gates across the road we stopped and soon we got to see a train go whistling past. Soon we were on our way again, and as it began to get light I could see Indian people walking along the side of the road on their way to work. We soon came to Vizak, and started to see more traffic. But it wasn’t too bad, and soon we arrived at the airport. After getting our luggage, we made our way to the door. But before passing the guard that was checking ID and tickets, we lingered a little bit talking with Pastor Wilson and Pastor Rao, who had accompanied us to the airport. I had become specially connected with Pastor Wilson, who is responsible for the deaf work and has a great burden for it. But finally we said goodbye, and the four of us passed into the airport. After checking in and getting through security it was only about 5 or 10 minutes before our plane was boarding. We would be flying to Chennai where I would be getting off, while Pastor Jeff and Noah, and Pastor Alfred would be going on to Bangalore to catch their flights back to the US. When we disembarked we found baggage claim was close and I retrieved my suitcase, and then we continued out to the gate where everyone holds signs looking for the person their to pick up. I waved good bye as I walked out watching for Israel…