Prayer Requests for Kenya / Sudan Team

March 3 – Searching Days

We will fly from Nairobi to Wilson on a commercial flight and then take a private plane from there into Labone. Our accommodations in Labone will be whatever we bring along by way of camping gear. We will be meeting our partners from Minot, ND on this trip on this day which is a prayer point for certain.

As we have been training here in Turlock for this trip, we have been given a mission by Global Outreach to present the CHE ministry to the nationals there. These people in Labone are facing some of the worst possible deficit in settling into a land and that is of experience and knowledge in everything from disease prevention, to community building, to micro business and more. Rather than going there to provide resources for them to do these things we are offering training and development for them to take ownership of the problems themselves and care for themselves.

Our partners from Minot have been returning to this particular group of people for three years now with a different mindset than that which Global Outreach is asking us to go. It is possible that our agenda’s might not mesh. This could make for a very stressful 6 days!

Pray that all of us from the states might release our agenda. Pray that we might be overpowered with a purpose and unity that flows from the Holy Spirit. Pray for eyes and ears that are tuned into the Kingdom and into the dignity and beauty of his children in this far away place.

I know that I will not be prepared to see what I will see there.

March 5 – Speaking Days

About this time we expect to lead a three day vision seminar for the CHE program. Pastor Luke is getting together a meeting of 60 to 100 nationals that we will be doing a presentation of several lessons with. As mentioned earlier, our hope is to empower and encourage these people to take control of their own futures and their own conditions. We will share about what it is that a people needs to become strong and healthy spiritually, physically, and economically.

Pray that we speak well and listen better. Pray for us as we visit the homes where children are diseased and malnourished and where darkness and oppression dwell like growling hounds in the room. Pray that we will not be overwhelmed with the pain that we will find but instead by a profound sense of Jesus peace and presence. May we set our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen.

Pray for unity in us as a team and with the team from Minot. Pray that we leave the people there with a clearer picture of what the Kingdom of God really is – both in them and in us.

Pray for the Labone people that they may release and forgive the way they have been shamed, hurt and diminished in the past by people like us offering handouts. That anger and suspicion can give way to hope and dignity.