Three strategic weeks...

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Seldom have three weeks sped by so fast. The Strategic Leadership Course (SLC) was an intensive time of equipping missionary students to be more effective and strategic in their next steps of ministry pioneering. The group was a mixed bunch of people with very diverse ministry visions and calling. For example, there was a Dutch lady who has pioneered a ministry reaching out to street prostitutes and working against the problem of human trafficking in Latvia. Also in the group was a Malagasy lady who has a heart to reach out to the hundreds of thousands of backpackers every year who spend a number of months living and working in Perth, Australia, and a young married couple from Switzerland who are preparing to pioneer a new ministry in their capital city, Bern.

In one-to-one times, I was linked with a couple from Scotland who work with KKI and have pioneered a ministry reaching out to gypsy children in Romania. And I also met weekly with a German lady who has established a wonderful ministry in Mozambique, teaching African people to produce natural medicines (made from plants that grow locally) and thus to save some lives among the many people who die every year from diseases like malaria or dysentery.

The course finished today, the students presented their written projects, and we took time to pray for everyone and commission them to be strategic in their next steps in pioneering. This evening, I've been filling in all the paperwork for the University, and tomorrow we'll be taking everyone to the airport for their journeys back to their own homes and ministry locations. Thanks for your prayers during our three weeks of investing in the lives of these dedicated missionaries.