Plans are coming into place for our June partnership pilgrimage to Mbandaka. We have all been inoculated against yellow fever and various other tropical disease that our Indiana immune systems are not prepared to handle. We have our passports with travel visas stamped and signed and ready to go. Guest houses and transportation are reserved. We are gathering both gifts and supplies for our partners and doing whatever else we can think of to prepare our physical selves for this journey.
Will we ever be able to prepare our spiritual selves? Though raising/saving the funds needed to travel to Congo may seem most difficult, I think the spiritual, mental, emotional readiness is much harder. Are we prepared to step away from life at home for a couple of weeks? Are we prepared to open ourselves to the gifts offered? Are we prepared to be vulnerable? Are we prepared to see from a new perspective... see ourselves, see others, see God?
Ready or not, here we come. We pray for strength for the journey and thanksgiving for the opportunity.
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