Well, I am back in the Central African Republic. This trip has gone fast. The youth team has put a lot of miles. I am going to do my best of summarizing our last training stop and the trip.
The last training session was is Boyabo(sp?). Let me just say that this was a humbling experience. We arrived in Boyabo on Monday night. When we were at the entrance of the church driveway the driver let us out. We were greeted with a guy’s choir. We walk through the guy’s choir to the girl’s choir. We walked through the girl’s choir to where the youth were singing. As we walk through each group they followed us to chairs in front of what we thoughts was the pastor’s house. We sat their while the guys choir sang three songs. Then the girls choir sang three songs. Then the band started playing. The youth sang and danced for us. This started at 5:30pm. The band and the dancing did not stop till after 9:00pm. We went inside about 7:00pm for dinner. As we walked in we were told that this house was where we were staying. The house was built because we were coming. We all had separate beds with mattresses and new mosquito nets. They made us our own showering hut type thing. It was so nice. The food was so good as well.
The seminar went well. It was a little tough to do because we had over 300 people attend. That does not include the women and children that were just there to see what we were doing. The people attending the seminar were very responsive. They were a little crazy according to our translator. We would ask a question and they would not answer our question they would ask some other question. When all was said and done the seminar went well. We felt a little like celebrities because a lot of the youth workers wanted pictures with us.
As I sit in my room at the Grace Brethren Mission I am sad my trip is over, but I am ready to come home. I miss my family. I miss some creature comforts. I will miss the people I spent a lot of time with in the Congo. I made some friends. I am sure this will not be my last trip to the Congo. We will have to see what God wants to do. I know there are some in the Congo praying that I come back with my wife.
Over the next couple days I will try and upload some pictures and videos. I will also try to put together a video for our church and load it on youtube so that all of you can see it.
Please keep praying for me. I am not home yet. I hope to be on Saturday morning. Please pray for Cal and I as we process the trip. Pray that God would speak to us.
Thanks again for all of your prayer and support. I will update you all again when I can.
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