After a few weeks of being back here in the States, I am still remembering and journaling about all of my Africa experiences. Honestly, it’s a reality check to be back in my own world and to think that everything I saw while in Africa is still going on because it’s their world. However, while there, I was shown that our new friends in Africa are not as far away as we might think. We are all brothers and sisters bonded through Christ. This truth came to life while being in Africa. It was a unique experience to be able to meet the people and see their living conditions that I have only ever seen on television or at Disney. It’s real. So real. I couldn’t believe the fact that when we got off the bus at every church site, the children would run up to us, take our hands, bow down, and say “How are you?” I just wanted to kneel down with them and hug them! The large crowds that welcomed and followed us while we were on site was something I had never experienced. I relate that feeling to how Jesus might have felt while walking the streets of Jerusalem. It’s a feeling of compassion and humility all at the same time. It’s beautiful to have people praying for you across the world and you praying for them. Prayer is power! A piece of my heart is in Africa now and all of my heart longs to go back someday.
Meet some of the children we met on our recent trip to Uganda. This video is taken at the site of Buyubu Orphanage, which is currently under construction. If you look closely you can see the workers as they work on the orphanage!
I am often asked , “Just what exactly is a vision trip?”Most people are familiar with short term mission trips, where you go to one location and spend time on specific projectswith one ministry or church.In contrast, an ICM vision trip is intended to give the team a chance to interact with multiple congregations and pray with numerous local pastors and leaders….hopefully, it is a blessed opportunity to capture a vision for how God is moving in the country and to get a sense of how ICM is being used to accelerate the vision to blanket a nation for Jesus Christ.
Of course, that is a wonderful purpose for the trip.However, I have always felt the more important goal of a vision trip is the opportunity to see Jesus.The team is already praying that our eyes would be open to see all that God has on his heart for us to experience spiritually…..we are praying that we would have spirits open to see Jesus in the faces of the men , women and children in the villages of Kenya and Uganda.We are praying that the blurred vision which can result from the distractions fromdaily lives in America will be refocused on God and what He is doing amongst His people to bring the world unto Himself.Thank you for praying for the Africa vision trip team!!
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