Another new year, another new vision

Another new year, another new decade. Perhaps it's a sign of impending old age that makes me feel time has flown by since we entered the new millennium. Now the decade of 2000, 2001 is already behind us and the decade of 2010, 2011 has already begun.

Speaking of time passing, I also realise that this week has been the fourth winter Christmas and New Year's day since I came back to Europe. It's been three and a half years since I said goodbye to Africa and, to tell the truth, for much of that time I still missed it terribly. Africa gets under your skin and into your heart. I haven't been back there since leaving, and a big part of the reason is that I knew I needed to settle in Europe and really allow it to become home before going back to visit Africa again.

Anyway, after a gap of three and a half years, 2011 will see me making my first Africa trip since my last (2007) visits to South Africa, Madagascar and Malawi. As mentioned in my last post of 2010, I've just renewed my yellow fever vaccination because I'll soon be going to Africa again. In fact, I'll quite possibly be making two trips to West Africa in 2011.

During 2010, I resigned from the KKI roles that I still held in Africa and I became part of a new leadership team for King's Kids in Europe. We've been asking God to give us a project that would gather and mobilise young people from all over Europe... and we've begun to birth a vision that will involve partnership between Europeans and Africans over the coming years. That's the reason for my trip to Senegal at the end of January, and you can read more about that in my first newsletter of 2011. Click here (page one) and here (page two) to open and read about one of my new projects for the new year.