Namahoro from Bujumbura!

Greetings from an oddly rainy africa!

i never expected africa to be so rainy! thankfully though, its the good warm kind of rain and not the cold miserable variety we in Belfast are used to!

apologies for the lack of puncutuation of pretty much any kind, and no doubt before this is over spelling mistakes, but keyboards are pretty different here, and im not sure its worth the effort....
anways, things are going great here. the team are doing well, and ministry is exciting. we just finished a morning of walking a group of students through the forgiveness journey, a separate ministry of ywam belfast. it was a good time of interacting between our two teams, and they had lots of questions that we attempted to answer! please pray for this group of young men as we seek to lead them in this journey.

the next few weeks are going to be pretty busy! this week we're with these students and also doing some outreach in a slum of Bujumbura. Next week we will be going up country to run a pastor's conference on reconciliation, please pray for wisdom for us as we speak to these pastors, that God would give us grqce and words to say that would inspire and challenge them, and likewise that they would do the same for us! After that we go to work with a youth for Christ orphanage for a week and then for the following week on to other ministries in the rural area such as prison and militqry camp ministry. It's a packed time!

Please pray for the staff of this outreach, that we would knozw how to lead well and to inspire and disciple these students as best we can, and for the students that they would have a good mission experience and also be open to God changing and moving them.

How about a few random highlights to finish??

¤ Catching up with the team at YWAM Kigali, hearing all their adventures up to then and looking forward to being a part of some more.

¤ Some quality bonding time with the affectionately named "Sparky the Cockroach" in mine and Rowan's bedroom...

¤ Being inspired by some INCREDIBLE people we've met here. In particular, a guy called Simon and a lady called Georgette.. Remind me to tell you more about both of them.

¤ Standing in front of a Burundian church singing a song i wrote about reconciliation in Kirundi, the local language, and seeing the looks of surprise on peoples faces. Pretty fantastic!

¤ Realising that in Africa, time is really more of a suggestion rather than something concrete!

¤ The bird that sits outside my bedroom window and sounds EXACTLY like the beeping clock in 24. Fans will know what I mean by that!

Okay, we're going to meet as a team in a few minutes and i'm still in the city centre! Will update again soon hopefully,

Until then,

t