the return

a few people have greeted me on my return with the question ‘when are you going back then?’. maybe my return to africa was inevitable!

throughout my 6 months in africa i was praying that if God wanted me to come back, then he would have to show me a project i could work with longer term, and put the right people in my path. about 5 months went by and nothing was really happening so i started to prepare for finding a job in the uk. those of you who have been reading the blog will know that towards the end of the trip i was put in touch with ‘school mission for christ international’ who work in a similar way to scripture union in the uk.

i spent a couple of days working with a schools mission pastor in ndola, and then the whole team spent a week in lusaka working with a couple who are both school mission pastors. i absolutely loved being in schools again and had a great time in particular working with gideon in ndola. i also met the international director of school mission, john pedersen, who is the brother of peter pedersen, the founder of kaniki bible college.

the cut a long story short, after both praying about it, john pedersen invited me to come and spend 3 months back in zambia with school mission. i realised that working for john, who himself taught at kaniki for 23 years, was way too good an opportunity to miss. the 3 months will give me the chance to work with school mission and explore the opportunity of going out there longer term. i’m also exploring the idea of using the ‘romance academy’ material to help young people, particularly with regards to the hiv/aids pandemic.

so, to answer the question of ‘when am i going back?’, i will be returning to zambia in september to spend 3 months working in ndola working with school mission. i will be staying at the SAQ building at kaniki bible college and am thankful that i will be able to continue building on the friendships i made with the students there.

i have added a link to the school mission website on the ‘links’ page above. my contact details are also there if you want to get in touch with me about any other details to do with the trip. i’ll continue to use this blog to give updates on my time in ndola.

I’M GOING BACK!!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!!

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