As this Home Assignment comes to a close, I look back on my time with family, faithful supporters, old friends and their new babies with a smile.
While home I've kept busy traveling around the United States visiting friends, supporters and churches. Time has also been spent preparing for my eventual return to Didinga and enjoying special moments with loved ones, ones who I dearly miss when away. Currently, I have been working diligently to complete several Bible class requirements.
I will be returning to the newest nation in the world - the Republic of Southern Sudan - on October 10th!!!! Originally, I planned to return to Africa in late August or very early September. However, my flight schedule was inadvertently adjusted due to flight in-availability.
Although it is never easy to say goodbye, I am eagerly anticipating this coming term in Didinga. I am looking forward to returning to my jobs teaching in the primary school and training local Didinga teachers. Also excited, yet humbled, by the prospect of mentoring the new group of missionary teachers joining the Nagishot team this year.
These days my mind is often filled with plans for future Didinga discipleship groups and opportunities for continuing to build upon the relational foundation first laid in Napep back in 2008.
As I head back, please join me in praying for:
*a peaceful new nation - the Republic of Southern Sudan!
*for a like-minded, cohesively Christ-centered missionary team in Nagishot
*for Stateside goodbyes and upcoming African life adjustments
*fertile ground in the classroom, amongst the National teachers and Didinga friends - ground eager for hearing the Word of God and accepting the Son.
Thanks for your continued interest in my life and the lives of the Didinga, prayers and financial support. I couldn't be there without people like you!
2 comments:
Kim, you are an incredible woman and you and your work are in my prayers!!
Good morning how are you?
My name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from South Sudan? I understand perfectly that you think that your e-mail is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in South Sudan in order to complete my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and a original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com, where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
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