Will I go

Since I started this blog (yesterday) I have been really thinking what I should say. Do I really have anything worth saying or am I like every other blog that writes for their own amusement? I pray this will encourage others and in some way keep a record of my journey to Africa. So I and others can see how God is moving in our lives.

This journey started several years ago as I referred to in my last post. Since that dream was given to me it has been three years. I feel as if I will never reach Africa at the pace I am going in school. If I look at what God is doing in my life I can not help, but notice his hand at work though. Just one semester after starting school at Boyce (the bible college I attend) I started going to Williamstown Baptist Church. I started spending time with the youth group and I began to fall in love with youth. Next to missions in Africa it has become a second passion of mine. Working with them has challenged me and also inspired me. Seeing God use this time to stretch me and grow me for his purpose in his kingdom is worth it. So all is not in vain. What I am learning right now will help me to minister to others and help them grow to know God more.

The tension with being in the United States and desiring to go to Africa is a difficult balance for me. I know to be able to go it will take first getting out of debt, paying off student loans is the main area I have. Luckily I wasn't dumb for too long and I only accumulated a small amount. I say smallm, this is compared to many other students I know. So will I go. I have a desire to go and a passion for the place, but it will have to be on God's time.

Afirca

I love Africa and the many different people who inhabit the continent. I would like to go and share the Gospel with them. I am not really sure where in Africa and to which people group, but God will show me. I started falling in love with Africa right after I read the book “Dispatches from the edge” by Anderson Cooper. He is a reporter on CNN, and his show is Anderson Cooper 360. His book had all his adventures compiled in it and at the age of just 17 or was it 18. I am not real sure, I have not read it in some time, but any ways he talked about his time in Africa. They way he wrote made me feel as if I was standing right next to him along the journey. Since that summer of 2006 I’ve loved Africa and I’ve wanted to go.
The rich traditions and the heritage that is rooted within the continent of Africa is inspiring. Maybe I am just some dorky guy who loves different culture’s. I want to sit down and talk with the elderly people both at home and overseas. I want to learn from them about their life and the things that happened during it. There would be nothing better than to sit around a camp fire with a chief of a tribe in Africa and talk about his people. Where they came from and how they became who they are today. I would love to be taught how to hunt and build a hut. I watched a movie (Faith like Potatoes) the other day and they built a mud hut and I would love to learn how to do that. So I love Africa and I want to go.