Comments on: I Need Africa

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:28:12 +0000

This is truth. Your words made me cry for the truth and the love in them. My heart so longs to return to this beautiful place. Thanks for being one of the many to share your thoughts on this. It is a joy to be a part of!

By: PJ

PJ — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:23:02 +0000

you are SO right. Nothing like a reminder that our little world here is a direct blessing from God, not that we deserve it. Seeing how the rest of the world lives is an eyeopener!!

By: edj

edj — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:52:12 +0000

This post made me smile. I could so relate. I wasted many years of my life being determined to never go to Africa, and it turned out to be the best and most fulfilling (ok except for motherhood) thing I’ve ever done!

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:59:28 +0000

Wonderful post. I actually am having the opposite where I felt God preparing me for Africa since my son was 5, starting first with simply a desire to take a family trip and then realizing it would have to be a mission, and have been amazed to see him unveil the plan over the last 9 years. 5 years ago we joined an Anglican Mission in America (AMIA) church which is a mission organization out of Africa, something my Baptist upbringing never would have imagined. I immediately knew this was how God would send me to Africa although I didn’t know the details at the time. Now we are planning a mission trip to Kenya summer 2009 and the entire family is planning to go.

As we have worked with some Africans in our church to plan the trip I have gotten this exact sense, that I need to go more than they need me there. Yes they need the financial help we will bring and the work we will do and the hope our presence gives but they also understand what it will do for us and how much we will change. They want us to go for us as much as for Africa. So I try not to feel too guilty that I am doing this because I really want to see Africa and worry that I might get more out of it than I give.

Thanks.

By: Cara

Cara — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:49:00 +0000

Sophie

Love you. Love this post.
I am deeply committed to my dry climate, warm shower, and blowdryer followed by CHI, each and every morning. So I know I am no “missionary type”. And yet…

I know I’m going. I just don’t know when.