Enlarge My Coast: My India Song

by Barry Blackstone

Overview

Enlarge My Coast tells of Pastor Blackstone's return to India to see the completion of a project inspired during his first trip to the subcontinent of Asia in 2006. This time his traveling companion will be a church deacon of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Russ Coffin. Blackstone and Coffin travel to Kerala State to help in the dedication of the new Venmony Baptist Church sanctuary and parsonage built through the support of their ministry in Maine. Once again Pastor Blackstone is able to share the wonders and wants of India through the eyes of another adventurous traveler. Enjoy with them the fascination of watching a working elephant beside a rural road; the attempt of catching on film five people on a motorcycle at one time; a houseboat ride on Kerala's largest lake; listening to Russ's first sermon; graduation day at Kerala Baptist Bible College; an Indian barbeque of pancakes and omelets; of trying to find a bell for the college in the busy and confusing markets of one of Kerala's biggest cities; and an auto-rickshaw ride through rubber tree-lined lanes, banana grove-covered valleys, and an Indian road repair crew! As in his other India books, Though None Go with Me and Though One Go with Me, share the practical spiritual lessons Pastor Blackstone learned on this, his third "India journey" and his first mission trip to the State of Andrah Pradesh as the guest evangelist for the Independent Gospel Baptist Churches of India. Share in the personal experience of a daylong journey on the infamous Indian railway into the backcountry of central India, of driving a bullock cart, eating an Indian catfish, making friends with a dog named Ellie, preaching in a thatched-roof church, being surprised by a police raid at four in the morning, and witnessing more people coming to Christ at one time than at any other time in the pastor's ministry. Journey for a month into the unpredictable land of India and enjoy the surprises around each corner as Pastor Blackstone travels to three Indian states and gets to meet fellow pastors from five states. The fellowship will be sweet, the food will be hot, and the friendships made will be eternal!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621896302
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	04/24/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	968 KB

About the Author

Barry Blackstone is the pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Ellsworth, Maine. He is nearing his fortieth year as a pastor, of which he has spent half of them at the church in Ellsworth.
Barry Blackstone is the pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Ellsworth, Maine, a thirty-two-year ministry. A writer since 1988, this was actually the author’s first attempt at a book project, now resurrected thirty-five years later. Having entered his fiftieth year in the pastorate, he thought it was important to get this first book into print. This will be Blackstone’s nineteenth book through Resource Publications.

Table of Contents

Prelude: My India Song ix

1 Where in the World Is Marnie? 1

2 Asking an Indian Question to an American Pastor 3

3 A Bug in the Grout 5

4 Unexpected Stay in Trivandrum 7

5 Russ's Amazing Race 9

6 A Caribbean Marnie 11

7 John's Funeral 13

8 A Scooter for Pastor Paul 16

9 Old Messages and Old Friends 17

10 Handing Out Awards at Bethany School 19

11 Three Days of Sermons 21

12 The Regions Beyond 23

13 Cooking Pancakes over an Open Fire 25

14 A Bell for KBBC 27

15 The Old Paths-Graduation Day 29

16 Saturday Blessings 31

17 It Was Made of Bricks 33

18 This House of God 35

19 The First Parsonage 37

20 Indian Houseboat Ride 39

21 A Four-Hour Tour 41

22 Goodbye to Russ 43

23 A Kerala Chorus Book 45

24 A Dry, Thirsty Land 48

25 Triple B on Elephant Hill 50

26 Lost in the Mountains of Kerala 52

27 Rabbit for Lunch 53

28 The Two Jewels of India 56

29 A Birthday in a Foreign Land 58

30 Fifty-Eight Colony 61

31 The Four Musketeers 64

32 A Train Ride in India 66

33 Train Log 68

34 Good Morning Andrah Pardesh! 70

35 Guntakel Baptist Church 72

36 The Journey to Kanekkallu 74

37 Ellie of Kanekel 76

38 Cell Phone Towers and Hindu Temples 78

39 Harvest Time in Andrah Pardesh 80

40 Street People of Kanekel 82

41 A Private Chef 84

42 Last Bus from Rayadurg 86

43 The Boys of Orissa 88

44 Tears under the Trees 90

45 Bullock Cart Driver for Christ 93

46 Other Jobs, but One Passion! 95

47 Just the Ordinary 97

48 Youth Rally at Kanekel 99

49 Portrait of the Persecuted 101

50 David, Rupert, and John Kennedy 103

51 Ordination Sunday 105

52 And Then There Were Three 107

53 Police Raid at Four in the Morning! 109

54 Second-class on an Indian Train 111

55 Indian Beggars 113

56 Hour by Hour 115

57 Rendezvous at Kalpadi 117

58 Picking Rice out of the Dirt 119

59 Night Train to Kochi 121

60 Saying Goodbye to Anna 123

61 Strawberry Ice Cream 125

62 Last Day in Edayappara 127

63 Reviewing the Trip 129

64 Blessings and More Blessings 131

65 Daily Record 133

Postlude: Returning to my Coast 137