Nearly fourteen years ago, when I was teaching on a child and youth ministry training course in Dakar, Senegal, the students and staff gave me this picture as a thank you gift. A picture of village life in West Africa, it's made of different colours of sand glued onto a canvas. Tomorrow I'll be heading back to Dakar for the first time since that previous trip, and I'd value your prayers as we visit various tree-planting initiatives and investigate future outreach possibilities. Perhaps you could pray for me whenever you clean your teeth. (See post for 21st January.)
