During debrief time we were able to hear about what our
ministry for the month would be. Excitedly everyone waited to hear the news; we
were going to be working in a Massai tribe community. Yes, the tribe that is
seen on the discovery channel wearing jewelry all over their body doing jump competitons
during their tribal activities.
It seemed like everyone was excited and ready to take on the
month, besides the unknown living conditions that could only be assumed. The
final details were to be figured out in the days to come.
TIA is a common expression while in Africa and it stands for
“this is Africa�. Meaning things don’t run exactly how you would assume and so
this is just a common reminder to yourself to not get stressed out and realize
where you are. This phrase is used more often than not.
For our team this phrase started being said before we even
got to our ministry site. Megan our team leader was responsible for contacting
our contact, which was Pastor Jackson and arrange all the travel necessary to
get to our ministry site, however, this was more difficult than imagined. We
ended up finding out through a long process that the pastor was sick and
instead of telling us this he tried to save “face� and not tell us. Through a
long process we ended up finding this out about him and finding out that we
wouldn’t be able to get to our ministry site until ten days after we were
suppose to begin our ministry.
However, through the workings of God and his overall plan,
not all things were so bad.
