A trip to the Leprosy Mission Hospital

Yesterday the Leprosy Mission hospital sent a jeep to take us

across the Yamuna(Jamuna) River to its campus.

Our Pastor was invited to speak at their Holy Week

evening service and I went along with his wife.

Here we are crossing over on the New Yamuna

suspension bridge.


Its the best bridge of our city.
Just down river (left)
is the famous Sangam-the confluence of
rivers Ganga and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati,
regarded sacred by the Hindus.

On the right you can see the
British built old Yamuna bridge.

The old bridge has railway tracks on the top.
It makes such a roar when a train is passing on it.
The pictures were taken from a very fast moving jeep
that' s why they are blurry.


You have to pay a toll tax to use the bridge,
at least the 4 wheelers do.
But you can have a monthly pass made.


This is the mission Chapel.

A church elder told us that it is a 100 years old .

Probably as old as the hospital when it was established

by American doctors and missionaries.

It has served the people of North India very well

all these years.

Now leprosy cases are on the decline,

Praise God ,due to early detection , treatment and living conditions.

so they are more involved in General Medicine and surgery.

We had 3 doctor friends here

(one was my cousin 's wife)

but now they all have moved away.

The chapel is a lovely peaceful place

for quiet contemplation and corporate worship.

It was a warm evening.

You can see the fans going at full speed.

There were about 60 people present.

I took this picture at the beginning of the service.

This is our Pastor sharing the Word.

Take a look at the clock on the right.

There is another on facing the speaker

(picture above)

Most churches have at least one clock.

But this one has two.

I found this quite amusing.

The clocks ticking both for the Pastor and congregation.

My Pastor took permission to extend his message by 10 minutes.

I am wondering if churches in other

countries also have clocks on their walls???

On the way back we took

the old Yamuna Bridge.

And I took these blurry photos

of the New bridge.

We had a very pleasant evening.

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PS . Sometimes people gift their church

a wall clock.

No double meaning behind it hopefully. LOL

Now you know what to do if

you find church long and boring!