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August, 2010
Newsletter
PRAISE AND PRAYER ITEMS
1. Thank the Lord for a relaxing vacation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan hiking trails, seeing awesome water falls, and enjoying the beauty of the wilderness.
2. Pray for those in Kampala and Mbarara Uganda as they plan for 2 workshops which I will lead the second and fourth week of October.
3. Pray that those in Kenya will soon have details worked out for my visit there in early November. I am hoping to do a part 2 workshop with the program and workshop leaders who are carrying on with the work I began there. I also hope to visit a few of the programs for on site monitoring.
4. Thank the Lord for several pastors in Lesotho who are beginning to preach on some of the topics we discussed in workshops which I held there in October last year and January this year.
5. Pray for those in Madagascar who are planning a mobile clinic program based on some of the sustainability principles that I have been teaching. I hope to go to Madagascar next spring to monitor this program as well as a couple of other ones.
6. Thank the Lord for several people who want to learn to advise groups and lead transformational development programs in several countries: Karin and Mdm Mami in Madagascar; David and August in Lesotho; Abby in Namibia; Josephine and her team in Kenya; Judi in E. Africa; pray that we will find someone to also do it in the Portuguese speaking countries of Angola and Mozambique. This means a shift in my involvement from actually leading workshops to team teaching them so those involved can do it on their own.
7. Continue to pray that the men and women in Angola who attended the workshops may be able to implement what they learned in a simple way to reach out to those in their communities. Also pray for church leaders in Angola as they make decisions about a plan for youth work which has local ownership.
8. August 27-29 I will be leading a workshop in Byron Center Michigan. This is my first time to do an abbreviated version in the U.S. Pray for wisdom to know how to adapt it.
9. Between catching up with E mails, international skype calls, and some administrative work, I have not made much progress on writing lessons.
