With only a few hours left in Senegal, we've been working hard today to process and wrap up our involvement as an advance team for the "Planting Together" vision. We've been reviewing some of the video footage that Marta has taken, making transcripts of the parts spoken in French, and writing translations that will be used for the subtitles. We've taken time to pray together, listen to the Lord and formulate a report of the people we've met and the possibilities that exist for future partnerships in outreach. Somewhat amazingly, after a whole week of having no electricity during daytime hours, we've had electricity all day today - which allowed us to work on our computers for editing video and translating transcripts. (As four of us sat together, working on our Macintosh computers, someone joked that it looked as if we were planting "Apples" in Africa!) Very soon, it will be time to pack our bags, head to the airport and take an overnight flight back to Madrid. Then, in just a few weeks' time, when we meet as a King's Kids European leadership team in Switzerland, we'll take more time to seek God's guidance concerning the right "next steps" in the development of this vision that He's put on our hearts. Thanks for your prayers for our processing together, and for smooth and safe travel back to Europe again.
I see that they've had a rather rainy week back home in Alhaurin while we were in Africa, but I'm thankful that I'll be going back to what looks like a pleasantly dry and sunny week ahead. I'm going to be house sitting and dog sitting at Villa Rehoboth while my friends are in the UK.
