A Sudden Departure

And so ends the story...

Well, not so fast. My team and I leave the country soon. Something like 11 hours from now, but who's counting?

It's not clear what this blog will look like over the coming months. We'll be travelling through four different nations in Africa over the next two months.

The next season of our journey is what we call Outreach. Simply a time of travelling to different nations with different cultures and different people that we might serve and bless them in whatever way they may need. It's about sharing life with them, loving them, knowing them. I could spiritualize the language I use to describe what we do if that would make more sense to you - honestly though people aren't really going to care much about knowing who God is if our actions don't demonstrate who we know God is. Hopefully that makes sense.

We're you aware that according to the U.N. projections the median age of Sub-Saharan Africa is 18 years old (http://esa.un.org/unpp/p2k0data.asp) - that means that half the population is below 18 years old (the total population of Sub-Saharan Africa is ~ 769 million). Do you wonder why this is?

Our coming journey isn't one of comfort. It's meant to stretch and push against the grain of our Western upbringing. We will experience much in the way of the local way of living through simply living alongside people of the ministries where we will serve. Sometimes it's quite clear that we in the Western societies deem our culture and way of life as the 'right' way. Certainly there are a great many positives of our Western ways - however, it's quite a paradigm altering shift to go out into other cultures and nations and experience their way of living first hand. We depart here on a budget of $19 USD per person per day (which includes accomodation, food, ground transportation, entry visa's, etc.). I say that only to put a bit of perspective on the journey ahead as I desire to communicate just the reality of what we do.

We're you aware that according to the U.N. projections the median age of Sub-Saharan Africa is 18 years old (http://esa.un.org/unpp/p2k0data.asp) - that means that half the population is below 18 years old (the total population of Sub-Saharan Africa is ~ 769 million). Do you wonder why this is?

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