Finally in Africa!

Howdy!

First off we need to apologize for the lack of communication; there have been numerous things happening since we left Colombia, and it’s been a whirlwind for us! 

After Reckless Ministries left Colombia and returned to the United States, we were pondering God’s plan. We were slightly confused, but trusting in God to provide a place to live and a temporary job while we waited in transition. We felt God leading us to live in West Texas, and work as substitute teachers. He was already providing everything we needed! As we settled into our new living quarters we knew God would bless the city and the people we encountered. Soon after starting our jobs we were blessed to pray for a few of the kids and other teachers. God began moving powerfully in the schools! We were able to pray for whole classrooms to feel the presence of God, and many of the students came to know Jesus! Halleluiah! Even though God was doing amazing things, the persecution still came like Jesus promised it would. However we were blessed with no major consequences from our sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! During this time of teaching He also began showing us what our next step was going to be. 

Because we are missionaries called to the ends of the world, we knew our time in the United States was temporary. We continued to pray and seek God out of our great love for Him waiting for Him to speak about our next step. He did not disappoint! One night God spoke in a dream to us that we were supposed to go back to Africa and staff the Harvest School of Missions. Honestly we were more shocked than excited, because when we left Africa one year ago our thoughts were, “we are never coming back.” Our minds and hearts were focused on our call to Colombia; believing we were going to be there longer than we actually were. Thankfully God has His beautiful ways of changing hearts! After praying more and only receiving confirmation after confirmation, we applied to become staff members for Harvest School 22. We were accepted and we were going back to Africa! 

This is where the craziness began. We only had 4 weeks to prepare to go back to Africa, which meant in four weeks we had to move all of our stuff again, pack, apply for visas, receive visas, book plane tickets, and travel to say goodbye to some of our family. There were many challenges to this, but the biggest one was getting our visas for Africa and Indian. Due to a late letter of invitation we could not send out for our African visa until 2 and ½ weeks out. This posed a problem because processing time is very long and the embassy is only open a few days a week. Add that with every other American student sending in their visa application and you have a long wait. To further complicate things one visa got sent back so there was a scramble to send it in again with prayers for a speedy processing. When both African visas finally arrived, we rushed down to Houston to get our Indian visas. Praise God it only took us one day to get them! Even with the blessing from God we still had to push our flights back a couple of days. So ending our time in the United States we waved good bye to our families one last time and boarded our flight, looking forward to our next great God adventure.

Arriving in Africa we felt completely normal, minus a few hours of sleep, but it was like we had never left. Back on the base we were given our room, an upgrade from last year praise God! Then the work started. We had staff meetings every morning, and we were kept busy getting the base ready for students to arrive. We saw what actually went on in the background when we were students, and it gave us a greater appreciation for our positions. We are still getting into the flow of things here, because things change quite frequently, and we are still new staff. God is being so merciful and good to us and we are beyond excited to see how these next 10 weeks go! God bless you guys and thank you for keeping up with us! More blog posts to come! 

Love,

The Reckless team