Fit to go ?

Yesterday I finished work on the French version of the participants' home preparation manual for the Planting Together outreaches this summer. The booklet aims to help the young people get ready spiritually, mentally and physically for their weeks in Africa this coming August. It includes information about the tree planting, the medical team and other planned outreach activities, there are pages with Bible meditations (on various passages about trees and fruitfulness) that participants can use in their personal quiet times, and there are suggested research activities to help them find out more about the people, languages and culture of Senegal.

The booklet already exists in English (I wrote it earlier this year) and at this point we're evaluating whether it also needs to be produced in some of the other languages of our participants - such as Spanish, German or Chinese.

Now that the home preparation materials are available to team members, I'll be turning my attention to writing the quiet time journal that they will use during the camp and outreach itself. This will be a smaller format booklet... but possibly more work to produce, as it will include about three weeks of study material that the young people can use in their personal times alone with God while they are in Africa. Thanks for your prayers as I work on writing the booklet, first of all in English, over the coming weeks.