As Bill discovered when he visited Kathmandu earlier this month, the 
reality is a bit grittier. This city of over 1 million people squeezed into a tight valley at the foot of the Himalaya Mountains gives the impression of being rather jumbled together and is highly polluted. The infrastructure is not developed in a coordinated manner, with buildings and roads put up as opportunity presents itself. Electricity goes off regularly, and most travel sites describe the water distributed in the city system as “toxic”!
Bill visited t
his city because this country has had some amazing “people movement” church growth since the instauration of religious tolerance just over a decade ago. He was there to look into partnership opportunities between our home denomination, the Reformed Episcopal Church, and one of these fast-growing churches. He spent several days visiting churches and pastors in Kathmandu as well as in nearby hill provinces.
In the attached videos you can ride along with him on a road into Kathmandu (notice the pollution haze in the background) as well as follow him as he surveys a typical market street scene.
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