Manipur, India 2005
 
These are the first pictures from our trip to visit Lian and Clara Tombing in Manipur.
 

   


This is Mualkoi Presbyterian church. Lian is the Pastor.
This is view of Covenant Children's Home, the orphanage run by the Tombings.
Covenant School is a private school for the village privided by the church.
One of the busy side streets in Churachandpur, the larger city.
The main street in Churachandpur.
Making chutney for the orphans.
A view from the Tombing's home.
Some of the orphans singing with Tim.
Lian singing with the orphans.
Two giggly orphans.
Another view from the Tombings.
A shop in Churachandpur were we bought coats and shoes for the men.
The inside of Mualkoi Presbyterian church
Our room in the Tombing's house. Note the mosquito nets over the beds.
Our bathroom. Note the shower in the middle.
Tim Werkema and his translator, Rev.. Vung, Clara's father.
The roadsides in Calcutta are filled with these makeshift homes.
Calcutta again.
Orphans playing with a bow and arrow they made.
About half of the men & women attending the conference. Lian & I in ...
The orphans work in the morning clearning the grounds.
An orphan girl cleaning.
Tim teaching the orphans to sing the Song of Moses & Miriam (Exod. 15)
A woman preparing rice for the orphan's dinner.
A view of Covenant Home's compound.
A typical, house in the village of Mualkoi.
The Tombing's home with Lian on the Front porch.
Khen, Rith, Clara, & Lian Tombing.
Rev. Vung Tombing (Clara's father), his wife, and me.
A shop in Churachandpur.
A second-hand streetside shop in Churachandpur.
Another Churachandpur shop.
The street in Churachandpur.
Students walking to Rayburn College Monday Morning in Churachandpur.
The shop owned by the Hindu family the Tombings are helping.
A house and pond on the road to Imphal.
The main street in Imphal.
A circus in Imphal. Note the traffic cop in white.
Tim, Clara, Lian, and me at the Imphal WWII cemetery.
The Tombing's kitchen.
The front room at the
Tombings.
Lian, Zouli, and Clara. Abbey wasn't around for the picture.