Togo Week 4

Togo Week 4 

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and that feels especially true on missions. I’ve felt that  moments of captured memories, beauty, people, places and shared joy speak louder than anything I could write. So instead of trying to capture it all in words this update will have a lot more glimpses of Togo and what God is doing here. 

Sunday

• Went to Church at New Life

• Took the 4 hour drive up to Kpalimé for a few days for a silence and solitude retreat in the Togolese mountains

Monday- Tuesday 

• Spent time in solitude, communed with the Lord, went on a nature  prayer walk around a monetary, practiced Lectio Divina, letting Scripture speak slowly and deeply

• Confidence in Christ Seminar  

• Share in community

Wednesday

• Morning mountain run 

• More solitude

• Drove back home and ended the day with dinner alongside the Deaf Catalyst team (a team that comes 4 times a year from Converge Global Missions to work among the deaf population here: this time was for a trauma healing conference)

Thursday

• Morning run 

• Krav Maga with the VT girls  

• This was more of a full workday with the VT team, a lot of manual labor 

• Dinner at the Freemans’ and got to meet the youth short-term trip team who just arrived

Friday

• Friday was sabbath

• Led a Discovery Bible Study (DBS) in the morning for the youth girls

• Restful day 

• Dinner at Suzes with the interns and youth girls

Saturday 

• We saw TTI (The Timothy Initiatve) seminars in action 

• Prayer walk in a Red Village (no knowledge of the gospel whatsoever), interceding over spaces and praying for people 

• Did DBS at Grace church with Esther and Bernadette again 

• Dinner at the Roberts’

Prayer Request

Please pray as I enter my final week here, that I would finish well in every way. Pray that it would grow and strengthen me, challenge me, and increase my faith. That the Lord would show me more of his heart for his people and that I’d remain expectant and open to how He can and will move and work in this time.