Why, you might wonder, am I sitting in my car at midnight, in the darkness of my street here in AlhaurÃn? Well, the reason is that the countdown has begun and it's not long now until we gather in Dakar, Senegal, with around a hundred young people who are joining us for tree planting and missionary outreach.
The small group of us who form the core leadership team of the Planting Together project are needing to skype regularly in order to make decisions about final details relating to food, transportation, airport pick ups, currency exchange, renting of tents and chairs for our orientation camp, etc, etc.
However, like many African cities, Dakar often has power cuts for many hours at a time. If the electricity is off all day, there's no way you can skype from there until the power comes back on in the late evening. And so our last few team meetings by Skype have been held on Thursday evenings from 10 pm till midnight - two of us in Spain, one in England, and the other already down in Senegal.
I'm excited to report that I finally got my Senegal visa this week (after quite a lot of challenges) and most of our participants now have their visas too. We still need to see some breakthroughs in terms of clear communication and confirmation of detais with the manager of our campsite and with local church people who'll be coming to an inter-church worship celebration that we're having one Sunday evening. Thanks for your prayers for that.
Well, I'd better be heading home now..... Tomorrow we have another full day with the "preschool in a suitcase" seminar here in Malaga. Good night :-)
