Our visit to Darjeeling
On the way to Darjeeling Per Arne Gjerde joined us at the airport of New Dehli. It was good to see him and welcome him as we were going to Darjeeling. I have been to Darjeeling once before (in 1971) and I was longing to go back to that beautiful place. When we arrived at the airport in Bagdogra, my friend Henry was waiting for us. He arranged our stay in the Darjeeling district. However we discovered that he had not planned to take us to Darjeeling at all, but only to Kalimpong. I had never been to Kalimpong before so that was ok with me.
We arrived late in the evening after a long journey climbing the mountains on narrow and curvy roads. Henry took us to some of his friends, leaders of communities of believers in that region. We had a very meaningful time with them during our stay in Kalimpong and we were able to share with them on the purpose of God for a prophetic community of people closely knitted together, working together in close and warm relationships. The Spirit of God was moving among us and we saw a wonderful release of the prophetic spirit among them as we minister to them through the laying on of hands and prophesying to them. Nearly all of them prophecy during the following day. I am really looking forward to hear good news of further development in all the communities of believers they represented.
In Kalimpong we decided that we wanted to go to Darjeeling anyway and that we had the time to do it. The trip to Darjeeling with the Sumo was a wonderful experience as we had a very good driver that carefully took us to our destination. The scenery on the way was just breathtaking, awesome and majestic. We were bursting out in praise to the Creator for his marvelous works over and over again as we went along to Darjeeling, climbing to the heights of more than 7000 feet..
Early in the morning we were taken to Tiger Hill at the heights of 9000 feet to watch the sunrise. It was just magnificent to see the rays of light touch the Himalayan mountain range covered with snow. Again we were praising God for his majestic work of creation. Actually, he is my Father, and he made all the beautiful nature us to enjoy it to the full!
When we should go to the airport of Bagdogra the following day, we came to know that a taxi-driver had been killed in Kalimpong the previous evening and now there was a strike on and no care were allowed to leave the town! If we had been in Kalimpong as planned we would have been stuck there, not being able to reach our flight for New Dehli. In his goodness, God not only saved us from all that hassle but he gave us this wonderful trip to Darjeeling which we enjoyed to the full because of the manifold beautiful scenery, but also because we were able to do some shopping. We bought a lot of genuine Darjeeling Tea and also presents for all our grandchildren. God is so good to us!