Pray for rain...

Back in January of this year, I and a few others made a trip to Senegal in West Africa for the purpose of investigating possible outreach opportunities for young people. The vision was for European young people to work alongside African young people in planting trees - thus not only blessing the continent by helping to prevent the encroachment of the Sahara desert, but also giving people opportunities to get involved in a variety of other projects that will allow them to make friendships with African youth and share their faith with others. You can read more about the vision in my January blog postings, and if you haven't yet seen the youtube promotional video we made, you can find it at this link: planting together video
The time has come and this week we sent down our first small pilot team of European young people to be part of the "Great Green Wall" tree planting initiative in Senegal. They left Europe with much faith and excitement.... but they arrived in Senegal to discover that the annual rains had not started yet. And it's not possible to start planting before the rains arrive to water the soil and help the new seedlings to take root.

And so we've been praying for rain. This week's weather forecast is for some storms and drizzle at the beginning of the week, but more sunshine again as the week goes on. Please would you join us in praying that there continues to be sufficient rain for the team to be involved in planting the young trees over the next couple of weeks.