Monday, January 28, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
“God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.” 1Cor. 1:21b
I have learned so much in the week I have been in Kenya. The first thing I want you to know about is the exact location of Doro in Sudan. I was completely off. The map below will show where I am going to be working. I am actually pretty close to Ethiopia!
At the Christian Life Conference I learned all about SIM Sudan and what it is composed of. There are at least 6 posts in South Sudan with over 50 workers from 6 countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, New Zealand, UK, Canada and USA. It has been such a joy to pray and worship with our fellow workers from all these different places! We sing worship songs in 3 different languages. I have met the entire team who I will be working with in Doro. Just at our post alone there are 3 nations serving together (Ethiopia, US, and UK). This team in Sudan has truly grown in the past year. Last year’s conference only had about 20 people and this year’s has over 50! We are really excited to see what God is going to do in Sudan this next year!
I will, Lord willing, be leaving for Sudan on Feb. 5th. I will be traveling with 2 nurses Amy and Grace and Dr. Masters and his wife from the UK. We will fly to a town called Loki on the northern border of Kenya and Sudan. Then we will take a smaller plane straight to Doro, Sudan. There will be 2 nurses already there working on the 2 training centers, one for community health and one for basic midwifery. I will be working with Sandy another nurse and Dr. Masters on establishing the clinic. There is a lot of work to do and much to plan, so please be in prayer for wisdom! As you can see our team is pretty big. We have a BLEC program, which stands for Basic Learning Education Center, run by the Ethiopians. Ray Lee will be SIM Doro team leader for us SIMers and he and his wife, Anne will be doing training and discipleship even wider than Doro. There is so much going on I can’t get it all on one letter. Please email me if you have any questions. These next couple weeks I’ll have more time to check and send email. I will also be able to send a few emails from Sudan through a satellite phone. I am hoping to keep my blog updated straight from Sudan.
Pray for:
1. My teammates and our camaraderie
2. Souls of the people who I will be coming in contact with
3. Peace in Nairobi and through out Kenya
4. Wisdom in setting up the clinic in Doro
I have learned so much in the week I have been in Kenya. The first thing I want you to know about is the exact location of Doro in Sudan. I was completely off. The map below will show where I am going to be working. I am actually pretty close to Ethiopia!
At the Christian Life Conference I learned all about SIM Sudan and what it is composed of. There are at least 6 posts in South Sudan with over 50 workers from 6 countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, New Zealand, UK, Canada and USA. It has been such a joy to pray and worship with our fellow workers from all these different places! We sing worship songs in 3 different languages. I have met the entire team who I will be working with in Doro. Just at our post alone there are 3 nations serving together (Ethiopia, US, and UK). This team in Sudan has truly grown in the past year. Last year’s conference only had about 20 people and this year’s has over 50! We are really excited to see what God is going to do in Sudan this next year!
I will, Lord willing, be leaving for Sudan on Feb. 5th. I will be traveling with 2 nurses Amy and Grace and Dr. Masters and his wife from the UK. We will fly to a town called Loki on the northern border of Kenya and Sudan. Then we will take a smaller plane straight to Doro, Sudan. There will be 2 nurses already there working on the 2 training centers, one for community health and one for basic midwifery. I will be working with Sandy another nurse and Dr. Masters on establishing the clinic. There is a lot of work to do and much to plan, so please be in prayer for wisdom! As you can see our team is pretty big. We have a BLEC program, which stands for Basic Learning Education Center, run by the Ethiopians. Ray Lee will be SIM Doro team leader for us SIMers and he and his wife, Anne will be doing training and discipleship even wider than Doro. There is so much going on I can’t get it all on one letter. Please email me if you have any questions. These next couple weeks I’ll have more time to check and send email. I will also be able to send a few emails from Sudan through a satellite phone. I am hoping to keep my blog updated straight from Sudan.
Pray for:
1. My teammates and our camaraderie
2. Souls of the people who I will be coming in contact with
3. Peace in Nairobi and through out Kenya
4. Wisdom in setting up the clinic in Doro
Thursday, December 20, 2007
I am going to Sudan!
The Lord has done it! In only 3 weeks I was able to raise 100% of my up-front costs and 90% of my monthly costs. He is so good! As of today I am 100% supported in both the up-front and monthly costs. Thank you so much for those of you who heard from the Lord and chose to give! I am not worthy of the great kindness I have received. I pray that your gifts and prayers will enable me to be a minister of the gospel He has given me!
I am planning on leaving for Africa on January 10th. I will be spending my first week in Brackenhurst, a Christian conference center outside of Nairobi near the town of Limuru, Kenya, for the Christian Life Conference. This should be an amazing opportunity to be encouraged by the current missionaries, share ministry ideas, and receive spiritual refreshment. After another week of preparation in Nairobi, Kenya I will be flying to Doro, Sudan. I am still not entirely sure of what awaits me there, but I have a little better idea from a nurse who has been working there since spring ’07. The first picture is of the Village of Nalgon, where one of the new churches meet. The second picture is the compound at Doro taken in July of '07.
Politically things in Sudan are seemingly quite and the SPLM are starting to work with the current government. There haven’t been any resent threats of going back to war.
Prayer Requests:
1) Souls of the people in Sudan and the gospel
2) The new churches in the areas
3) Stability and peace in Sudan
4) Wisdom with Medical decisions and equipment
5) Peace and comfort for my family back in the states
6) The present missionaries in Sudan; their witness, those they come in contact with, and safety
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