HI EVERYBODY!!!
We are officially back from training and put a few little things together for you. To fully understand the post, follow and watch in order and you will know all about what is going on and what God is doing to continue training us until we leave in January! ENJOY!!!! 🙂
SO WHAT WILL WE BE PARTNERING WITH GOD ON IN AFRICA????
So what you are looking at right now is a picture depicting the continent of Africa and the people groups known. The green dots represent Christian (Evangelical) Groups as to where the red dots are equated to the groups that are unreached know as UPG’S. You will notice that there is a large number of green in the south and a large number of red in the north and then there is almost straight line across where the two meet and the colors change. The meeting point has come to be known as the “Firewall.” Although you cannot see, the three countries we will be serving are actually divided by the “Firewall.” The northern half of Cote d’ Ivoire, Ghana, and, Togo are occupied by predominately red dots while the southern regions are heavily populated with the green dots. We will be serving and loving right smack in the middle of this and we could not be more excited!!!!!!!! 🙂
So how is God moving in this? Well, the three countries we will be in are very strategic and critical in the advancement of the Kingdom upwards in to the closed countries of North Africa that we are not allowed into. They are important because they are one of the largest shipping and transportation regions of Africa because of it’s coast. So many people (truckers) form the northern regions are coming down to the coast (mostly green) and taking things back. God is using people to share the Good News to these transporters in the area that we are allowed and they are receiving it and taking it back to their families where we are not allowed to go!! How cool is that?? And guess what?? That will be a HUGE part of what we will get to do here! God is so good and cannot wait to love with His heart and mind and see what He does!!
AND AS PROMISED HERE IS THE VIDEO OF OUR TEAM AT TRAINING CAMP!! These are the people we will be loving Africa with so be praying for them as well! Video credits to our teammate PAIGE EMERSON! (The words below this in italics are her words to summarize!!) ENJOY!!! 🙂
What the Training Camp video doesn’t include:
- Bucket/baby wipe showers (for very obvious reasons)
- Eating crickets – these were D E L I C I O U S
- The story behind a century egg – find it here! (yes I ate one. yes it was disgusting. no, Dan “The Man” was not exaggerating!)
- Squad War Games played during squad wars (just know dodgeball was included muahahaha!)
- A full intro of every squad member & our FEARLESS LEADERS (so sorry! I love you all too much!)
- The story behind our team name Rapha: “Hebrew word for BE STILL. We are a hit it and get it team and we need the reminder to be still before the Lord. We are so excited to travel the world sharing the good news with these beautiful people!” -Kalyn Ledford
- Footage of our hike test (FYI > EVERYONE PASSED!! BIG APPLAUSE!)
- The day we got to be part of society again (we ate at a restaurant & used Western toilets!)
- The days we did dishes as a Squad ??
- Full details about Women’s Day – [the frames with sand volleyball! (just know it was a m a z i n g & there are some rad women in the Bible & rad women I get to live out next year with!)]
- …Probably a lot more I left out, but you just sat through 10mins worth of my very first time using iMovie & editing software, so I figure you’ve had enough ??
We love you all so much and can’t thank you enough for helping this dream from God become a reality!!!!
