The March Get together was a time of fellowship, food and farewell to Don and Sharon. Don shared a very personal message that left many of us thinking about how honest we are with ourselves and before God. The food as always was mind blowing.. I managed to itemize it and I was surprised! ..

Cheeze Pizza, Chicken Pie, Spaghetti with Thai Peanut Sauce, Ghee Rize, Mutton Curry, Mexican Beef Chilly, Beef Cutlets, Chilly Chicken, Basil and Olive Chicken, Chicken Pasta (Penne), Dinah's Chicken, Appam with Chicken and Vegetable Stew, Malai tomato Paneer, Turmeric Fried Fish (Oriya style :) ) Rice and Roti. phew..

For Dessert - Pecan Choco Bars, Crookies, Floating Islands and Indian Sweets..

Radiance organized a 5 day House Church Conference along with Tony and Felicity Dale, pioneers in the house church network groups in the USA. The first 3 days were open to people in full time ministry and the last 2 days were for people generally interested in this model of church. It was like revisiting some of the most fundamental principles of church planting and discipleship in the light of the teachings in the gospels. It has challenged those from the mission field to adapt this method to their current work while for those of us at Radiance it was a reaffirmation of sorts of our approach towards church besides being a time of evaluation.

For a change this year, we did carol singing in the day time. Sounds quite an anti cultural thing to do. But the reason was we visited quite a few of our non believing friends and shared the good news of the purpose behind the birth of Jesus and the real christmas message. A long tiring day, visiting around 14 homes over 12 hours. But we continue to pray that we have sown the seeds for a new beginning in the hearts of some of the people we visited.

 God opened doors in Malleswaram where a new group was started, which is known to have a number of temples. 2 radio listeners along with another seeker meet regularly with few of us from Radiance. The Banaswadi group which meets in Sayo & Danny's home enables especially those from traditional Christian backgrounds to have a deeper understanding of God’s grace.