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March 12, 2008

Back to the UK

I am now back in the UK. I will be out of Burkina for four months. I am based at home in Cardiff, but will be travelling a lot, including spending most of the month of May in the USA. I will put my itinerary up here soon. But first I need to get a holiday...

The Last Days
We had a great time with the last few days evangelism. In the villages we went to, people were very welcoming, with hundreds coming to see the Jesus film and hear the preaching of the good news of Christ. At one village, after we had finished, two guys came up and started insulting us and the way of Christ. But they were then told off by the other villagers. Most of the people seemed keen to hear the message of forgiveness and new life in Christ.

Wells, Soccer, School
* Wells. We now have a date for the well drilling. We will be drilling six wells and repairing about 5 in the month of November. These will be in various villages around our region. They will cost about £3500 each, and we are raising funds for that.

* Soccer. Ian from my church came out to talk with Pastor Adama about the idea of doing a "soccer school" - training kids in football, and training church guys as trainers. Soccer is great for building relationships and breaking down barriers. We are planning this camp for Sep 2009.

* School Plans are forging ahead for us to build a primary school in Gorom-Gorom, and so we are raising funds for that too. The school will be run by the church, but open to people from all backgrounds, and will particularly aim to reach the poorer local community. Burkina has one of the lowest literacy and school enrolment rates in the world, so this is key. We hope to have the school built by Oct 2009. But in the meantime, we plan to open it in a rented room in Oct 2008. I will write more on this soon.

De Dub Dub Dub
I have had a young English guy, David, with me for a couple of weeks, and it has been great to have him around. Pierre asked him to teach him to say grace in English, so David playfully tried to teach him "Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub." Pierre found this hilarious, but could only manage "De dub dub dub". So whenever he wanted to ask Dave to pray, he would just say "de dub dub dub", and that now meant " It's your turn to pray!"

Posted by Keith at March 12, 2008 09:23 PM