Upcoming Ministry Trip

Hello,

Just a quick note to ask you all to pray for us this coming week.  Our Advanced Missions Training is heading into the bush for village ministry again this coming week (Sun-Fri).  We decided that this trip, I will go and Dan will stay back with the kids.  I have never been gone from the kids this long (ever!) and Dan hasn’t single-parented this long before, so it could be interesting!

The ministry is in the Makuni sector and will be the first time they have had evangelism in this area in a long time.  Overland has a strong presence in the farming community there and does weekly Bible studies with the farmers in their co-op.  They have asked for a focus on Women’s ministry and that is my favorite thing, I can’t wait!!   I am also co-leading the cooking, so it will definitely be a fun week.

The main reason Dan is staying with the kids is because the following week he is heading to South Africa for 5 days.  We finally have our 2^nd container and Dan is heading down to handle the finalization of that process and hopefully get Titus’s South African visa sorted.  More on that next week…both of those things have caused a great deal of frustration and it will be good to have those two things sorted finally!

Thank you for your prayers for us, we are doing very well.  As I type to you, I am enjoying some loud traditional African worship music since there is a church having a conference in the camping area of Overland’s base.  Last night it lasted until 3am and then they woke up everyone (including us) with a funny wake up call at 6am.  J  l am going to look for my earplugs soon.  Hopefully tonight will be more restful…

We posted a few pictures of us working in Nsongwe on our Facebook pages – feel free to check those out. 

I’ve attached a silly picture of the kids in our makeshift bath here.  There are showers available, but sometimes the kids just like to play and soak, so we got a big plastic bowl for them!  I am pretty sure it is supposed to be used for hand washing laundry, but it’ll definitely work. J

Excited for what God will do this week!