Raj writes to tell us of another miracle (we think!) that has happened recently:When the Hiders were here in Bangalore we went to Mysore for a one-day trip along with the Husband’s family (friends of Dave and mine).
On the way towards Mysore we stopped for a small break in a coffee shop. I went to find some Indian breakfast meanwhile the Hiders and the Husbands were having coffee. The children where playing and saw a praying mantis on the window. They were looking at it from inside the coffee shop and as they did a voice from behind Dave said (in a fairly broad American accent) “do you want me to go get it for you?”. Dave said yes and the guy, and Indian guy went out, caught the praying mantis and brought it into the coffee shop.
He called Dave over and Dave sat down and had a coffee with the guy who’s na
me turned out to be Martin. That’s him on the right.Dave was sharing about the vision of TFT and the need for a land for an adventure camp centre. This man happened to be a very rich guy and it turned out his son (Gerry Martin) is famous on the Indian National Geographic channel is a big outdoor (Bear Grills type) guy. He is a big landowner and has many properties. Dave called Raj over to meet Martin who proceeded to gave us an invite to come and see some of his land, which could be of use (talk about divine appointment!!).
Martin has lived in the Uk and the US for some time is a well-seasoned man with lot of knowledge about real estate and has good knowledge of the western gats in south India. This contact was amazing.
I have recently been in touch with him an on the 3rd Sep we went to see some of Martin's land at Hunsur - 50 km from Mysore. Martin has a farmhouse with 12 acres of land. It’s flat land where there are no mountains and right next to his land there is big lake - good for water sports. It was good to see is land and we had a good talk with Martin. He explained to us how he got the land and developed it , but still in stage of developing at present they are working on building rest rooms and plantation.
Martin has offered us his land for us to conduct some camps in the future with a small finical contribution towards the use of the land. The good thing about the land is that it has the lake which come right to his land. At the moment I have been praying for some canoes it has been my long time desire to have some Old Town Canadian cones, I know one day God will provide.
It was really good for us to have visited Martin’s land , it has give us a good idea what kind of land we are looking for , at the mean time we have been praying and looking for the land God has promised to give us . As for Martians land we may be using it one day but as of know we are not sure when we will be doing that. So the hunt for land is still on....
