Dear ITEM Partner, As the members of our leadership teams from Kenya and Uganda shared updates with me, I was moved emotionally. At one point I thought I was going to tear up but stopped one inch short. The stories told by Hillary, Noah, Danis, David, Tom, Apollo, and Jacob (not a team member……yet) were […]
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Hi Everyone, This was a travel day. Up at 6am, out the door at 7am. Short flight at 9:30am. Car to Busia (the border of Kenya/Uganda), arrived at 3 but spent time at ITEM Trainers home. Eric Ngala has quite a ministry. I was told while on the way we’d be there 10-15 minutes. But
YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN AFRICA WHEN . . . Read More »
Sunday, January 27, 2019 Dear ITEM Partner, I got into Nairobi shortly after 5am after a red-eye flight from Accra, Ghana. It was bumpy (turbulent) throughout the flight. I tried to nap but it was harder than normal. I got to Nairobi, then Mayfield Guest House (my oasis/refuge) in Africa. After breakfast I took a
RANDOM THOUGHTS & THE COMING WEEK Read More »
PRENOTE: Sunday, 20 January, in flight from Nairobi to Accra, Ghana. The internet at the guest house where I stay in Nairobi was down most of Saturday and extended beyond my bed time. So, it is Sunday when I am getting my Saturday report on its way. More about this flight at the end. Dear
FAST FORWARD THURSDAY TO SUNDAY Read More »
Dear Beloved Friends and Family, Now that we have completed this one day of planning with our team in Tanzania, it’s time to head home. It was a full day of reviewing our goals, priorities, strategies, seminars, and lectures that they have now been “sent” to conduct. We started around 10 and finished at 3.
MARCHING ORDERS DELIVERED IN TANZANIA Read More »
Hi Everyone, The seminar is complete. It was a good experience for the team. I shared that with you a couple of days ago when I posted a report entitled “Father Knows Best.” While the seminar did not turn out as planned, God was in control as I mentioned in my report a couple of
BRAINSTORMING THE NEXT STEP Read More »
Dear ITEM Partner, In Genesis 11:7, 9 we read, “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech…. Therefore its name was Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth. . .” The creation of languages was actually a judgment of
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Dear Praying Friends, Wednesday is in the books. Two more days. As I mentioned yesterday, the numbers are pretty low. But I also mentioned yesterday that all we need to come out of this is one or two pastors who will step up and want more training in the area of preaching, which is one
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Dear Friends and Family, Day one of the seminar is finished. Three to go. The lectures were routine but I added to one lecture because of what I learned from Faly about “authority” in this culture. And one line of questioning at the end of the day was not. The four lectures today focused on
WHO’S IN AUTHORITY HERE? Read More »
Dear ITEM Partner, After a promising and encouraging three days in South Africa, interacting with leadership of The Master’s Academy International (out of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA), it has been a mostly relaxed transition to Madagascar where I arrived Sunday, midafternoon. With a lot of free time both Sunday and today Monday,
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