The Congo (DRC) -- this summer!
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We have always felt that our 2 and a half years in Sierra Leone were a training time for us. Learning African culture and how to live in the the third world, growing a love for its people and getting on the ground understanding of how to help.
Missions work has three parts in our opinion one is the preaching of the Gospel, bringing the good news of Jesus to people who do not know Him. Secondly is 'mercy ministry', meeting practical needs, food, clean water, clothing, and education among others. The third is that of prayer, God's way of bringing heaven to earth.
We moved to Oklahoma city with the understanding that from there we would go, in partnership with 'No-Boundaries International' to another nation in Africa. In the months before we moved here we began to be stirred about the 'DRC' (Democratic Republic of Congo). A series of events began to point us toward that nation, and as we have been here this last year our desire to go to the DRC has solidified. We both want to go and feel that it is indeed the nation God is calling us to next.
Out of the place of prayer (the house of prayer) God sends out missionaries (Acts 2, Matt 9:38). We came here to build a house of prayer as a sending place for missionary work in the nations and we ourselves are being sent to the DRC from there.
We have already built key relationships with missionaries stationed in Goma, DRC, a town bordering Rwanda on Congo's eastern side. The two ministries we felt we would work with, one being 'Iris Ministries' are working there already. Our own organization, has a division called 'the Well' run by two women who adopted children from there and now take short term trips and advocate for Congolese women and children in crisis.
Brittany, Anna, and I are not planning to go as a family anytime in the near future. I am however going this summer on a three-four week 'scouting' trip with 5 others from our 'No-Boundaries' team.
Please consider supporting us either for this 'short term' trip or becoming a long term partner in our plan to go next year.
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