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We went to Togo two days after we were informed that our
ministry contact for the month was “too busy to host us.” Because of things falling through with them,
we were able to go out and find our own ministry for the month. After sPaintingending out emails to various missions
agencies we were put in touch with an American missionary working at the
Baptist Seminary in Lome, and partnered with the Baptist seminary to help them
with some painting that needed to be done around campus. Their dorm rooms were in terrible shape and
were in some desperate need of a new coat of paint before students would move
back in and the seminary couldn’t afford to pay anyone to paint them. So, we did. We painted one room after the
next until we ran out of rooms and paint. Then we moved on to painting the
columns in front of the main building.

The jacked up doctrine that has been spread all over West
Africa is not something my team is capable of fixing no matter how many
God-breathed sermons we preached; however, I do see freeing up resources for
the seminary so that they can concentrate on building up godly leaders that
will rock this nation as a worthy cause. Sometimes we get to preach the gospel,
and sometimes we simply serve those who do. Also making our own schedule for
the month allowed us to do other things we wanted to do like visiting the
Compassion project I told about in my last post, going on board Africa Mercy,
visiting orphanages, and stopping by an HIV/AIDS clinic.
 

Painting Supplies
Painting Supplies. When we showed up the dorms looked pretty bad, and had tons of cracks on the walls. I was able to repair most of the cracks and we put a fresh coat of paint on almost everything.  We did the best we could with what we had to work with.
 
Although I wouldn’t recommend going to a country to do
missions work without a contact and unable to speak the language, I do think
our month in Togo turned out alright. Challenging? Yes.
 
Staff of the AIDS clinic
 Matthew, Janna, and Jordan with the PDH Centre Social HIV/AIDS clinic staff.  They have an awesome organization and do more than I could list. Unfortunately, because none of us speak French, there wasn’t a whole lot we could do to help them.
 
Africa Mercy
 Africa Mercy, a floating hospital, provides free surgeries and health care to the impoverished people of Africa.  Two of our teams spent two weeks volunteering on board… I had to settle for a tour.  Definitely check out Mercy Ships.