Confessions of an India Team Member: Jack Magruder

Why am i going to India? Well, you know, it IS my job... and really, i HAVE to anyway. Yeah, that's it. I HAVE to. Repeatedly. Often. Constantly. With whatever excuse i can find. Just one more time! Just one more trip! That's all! Just one more! It doesn't really matter what the reason is any more... i just need to get there!

It might sound like an addiction problem to most people, but i can quit any time i want to... really. You see, with an "addiction problem", you can't stop something, even if you want to. But as for me and India? Well, I can stop going to that amazing country if i want to... i just don't want to, that's all!

Well... or maybe i'm hopelessly addicted. Maybe i'm addicted to the people there. The smiles and the beauty and scent of being on the absolute cutting edge of the Great Commission with people who have passion for God and their people that fuels and sparks my own. Maybe it's going with people like our GCC team members, who always bring the love and touch of Jesus Christ with them no matter how hard it gets or how far they are pushed. Maybe it's watching transformation happen all around us every time i go. Maybe it's the food... that wonderful, flavorful, succulent, spectactular food! Maybe it's the music and life and the love and the proximity to "where God IS". Mabye it's being able to do something exotic and difficult and fun and exciting for 10 days, knowing that when we returned, we had the opportunity to be in the shadow of the Hand of God... and perhaps a little part of it at the same time.

Maybe it's all of those things... and maybe i don't have a problem. Maybe i'm not addicted.

And maybe i'm lying, or in denial, or just too blind to call it what it is...

And maybe you'll all find out EXACTLY what i'm talking about in just a little over a month!