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June 03, 2007

Still too busy

Just a quick one to ask for your prayers over the coming weeks.

Life is good, but still really busy as I try to help churches in northern
Burkina Faso establish two-way partnerships with churches in the west. It is exciting, and I think has huge potential not only in empowering the Burkina churches as agents of transformation in their communities, but also in bringing a challenge to the western church as we seek to nurture a healthy spirituality in the busy-ness and pressure of 21st century life.

1. France.
I am off to France for a week tomorrow (Jun 4th), where I will be meeting up with churches to talk about the vision for the partnerships, and about what God is doing in Burkina.

Please pray that we have a meeting of hearts, and that I manage to communicate effectively in my “African French”!

2. Burkina Faso.
I have about 2 days in the UK after France, before heading off to Burkina Faso (Jun 14th) for just 2 weeks with some business guys from my church. As part of our church's partnership with the church in Gorom-Gorom, we will be looking at how business might contribute to the vision of the church there for impacting the community through holistic mission.

I will also of course be meeting up with many friends, visiting the people we built homes for following the flood, looking at the need for further aid, and also preparing the ground for a children's camp this summer.

There are some exciting stories of people coming to faith in Christ following the church's response to the flood, and it will be great to catch up with it all. Please pray for a fruitful time.

3. UK
I will then be back in the UK for a month, including being best man at Steve's wedding, before heading off to Burkina again for a couple of months. During this time in the UK, I will be continuing to try and develop the vision for these church partnerships.

One of my big needs at this time is for a helper who can take some of the administrative tasks off my hands, and free me up to focus more on developing the work. Would you please pray for God's provision in this for me?

Many thanks.

Posted by Keith at June 3, 2007 09:10 PM