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While we are here in the 10/40, we will be encouraging teams on the ground and joining them in their efforts to reach the lost. Multiple outreaches each week have us and the kids ministering on the streets, sharing life in people's homes, and when we have some down time, spending time in prayer and worship with the team on the ground here.
Locally, there are tensions flaring because the greater international conflicts are opening sectarian and ethnic wounds which have compounded external refugee pressures and added to the crisis here on the ground. In the town we are staying in there is relative calm, however we are seeing checkpoints and other precaustions to try and filter out problems. There have been some terror threats.
Shortly, the first trip out to a refugee camp will take place. The city this will occur in has been the focus of much pressure and many threats, as well as intermittent acts of terror. This is where Nikki was back in January. John and a memeber of the team are meeting a local pastor who is working with homeless people who cannot find room in the camps and are receiving no aid outside of what this tiny church can provide. They will also go into camps and minister one on one while assessing which is the most critical need the Lord leads us to address materially while they are there.
Over the next several weeks this will happen at least three times, and possibly more. There is another city which catches much of the floW from another part of this international crisis which has been targeted for aid and in which the team here has contacts.
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Back in Africa, Tryphone is on his way to Mozambique for a three month class and expedition with IRIS Global, at Heidi and Rolland Baker's Harvest School. This was made possible by Transforming Life Church in Plant City, who stepped up and have supported Tryphone in taking a step forward in developing his call to ministry. At the same time, Musa, Damas, Moshi, and the rest of our pastoral team are working hard to continue reaching villages beyond their own.
This was an interesting season; we had three remarkable teams come for three extremely different expeditions: The GWOC team helped finish the contruction in Kama on the church building and ran an evangelism effort into one of our mountain villages. The TLC pastors came and unloaded a mountain of anointed Word encouragement to leaders and members from 7 churches in 5 different villages. And Burning Ones founders Mike and Anna Dow followed up the GWOC teams evangelism with a Bible drop and some powerful one on one ministry at the top of the mountain.
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We have already begun planning for 2016's expedition and training season. Of course, we will be Stateside first, having not been (as a family) since Spring of last year. We land in FL just before Thanksgiving, hit NY just in time for Christmas, and expect to hit much of the Eastern Seaboard, several places in the Midwest, and even a few spots on the Pacific Coast.
Hope to see you along the way!
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