It's Togo Time!

I just wanted to send a quick update about my trip to Africa coming up next week and ask for your prayers over my team and I. This time there will be 18 of us traveling to Togo from March 22-April 15. Togo is on the coast of West Africa next to Benin. It is the smallest and one of the poorest countries in Africa. We will spending the 1st week in the Capital city of Lome, at the very southern tip of Togo. Here we will be working with different church ministries as well as orphanages. The second and third week we will drive about 1.5 hours up North to a city called Notse. Here there is a Bible College which has branched out from mine (www.iabc.dk) in Denmark. The BIble College, called CAFEM, is a cement building with different rooms and no running water or electricity. We will be doing a lot of practical work here, as well as preparing a Missionary Home, on campus for differently missionaries to come stay in. Also in this city, we will visit local clinics because the leaders of my missions school are doctors, and we will be doing some work there. Our main focus will be in a couple different Children's villages.

Our Container Project was a huge success and a God given miracle. As most of you know, we have spend the last 2 months gathering supplies to send in a container to Africa. This turned out to be a bigger project than we expected. We ended up in the Newspaper twice. The whole city and surrounding cities got involved in donating clothes, shoes, bikes, furnature, tools, and everything in between. We spent last week packing our container and it shipped off on Thursday. We are hoping that it will reach Lome while we are there so we can distribute the goods among the Children's Villages and to the locals that we are in contact with. We will return to Lome a couple days before we are to fly back to Europe.

Please pray for:
1. Safety in travel
2. Wisdom for God's leading while we are there.
3. Open hearts to hear the Gospel
4. Protection from sickness
5. Unity in our team
6. God's guidance in every step we take.

Here are a few pictures of our final collecting day. We spent two days packing this container full of the stuff we had gathered to send to Togo.






This is Helge (our Missions School Leader) and KoKo, our Togan friend, making sure all the holes are filled in.
Just an example of some of the stuff we gathered.

Barbara, always happy to serve. :)



In Denmark, they use tractors to haul things. :)

Baby Joshua stopped by to help. He found some things he wanted.



Momoko and I searching through the kids clothes.
I look a bit confused, but I promise, I had it all under control. :) My job was to register everything going into the container. It proved to be harder than I thought. Thanks for your prayers! I will keep you updated!

Euroclass 2009

Well, after lots of prayer and consideration Martin and I have decided to take the job at Euroclass next year. THANK YOU all so much for all the prayers and encouraging emails that I recieved! You have no idea how much it means to me to know that I have this huge prayer base at home!

On Friday I was still feeling a little anxious knowing that we had to have a decision made quickly. But, God is so good. In my "Equipment for Ministry" class we are learning about the different gifts of the Spirit. On Friday, the topic was Spiritual Wisdom, perfect timing! After the teaching he asked if there was anyone who felt like they needed wisdom over a specific decision. I asked for prayer and 4 girls prayed for me. I was given so much encouragement and prophetic words, it really made me feel so much more at peace about the whole situation, which was especially good because Martin called me a few minutes later and said that he had set up a meeting with Peter (Euroclass Leader) at 2:00 that afternoon. So, I went into this meeting feeling so much more at peace than I did before. In this meeting we just talked with them with some last minute questions we had should we take the job, and it was so good.

Martin and I left Peter and Sarah's house feeling so encouraged and uplifted. It's going to be such as blessing for us to work under this couple and be discipled by them as well as us getting to disciple the teenagers. I think my brother nailed it on the head when he said, it sounds like I'm a little homesick, but I know that God is not through with me here. That is right. I miss my home and my family and friends so much, and I hate that I am missing out on important things happening, but I also know that there is always a cost in following Jesus. He calls us to look straight ahead, not to the sides or behind and follow him completely, and that is what Martin and I want to do with our lives.

We are so excited about this opportunity. We are excited to be able to do what we love as our job. Euroclass is in connection with a boarding school (this is where Danes ages 15-17 go...kind of like high school) so I will also be considered an employee there and may get to teach some English classes as well. We are excited for the road ahead.

Thank you again for all your prayers and encouraging words! It means more to us than you know! Please continue to do that!! AND... we can't wait to see you all at the wedding! :)

Love from Lynsey and Martin

www.euroclass.dk