Comments on: We’re Back! Now What?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:31:37 +0000

Drew, no way! Yeah, we should talk. Did you blog about your trip? If so, post a link.

By: Drew Sams

Drew Sams — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:38:03 +0000

Paul,

small world! I too just got back from leading a team to Nakuru AND finished reading The Hole in Our Gospel. We should connect some time.

Drew

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By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:07:23 +0000

I too saw the commonality, pretty weird. Ive been on such a journey the last 10 years I know that nothing happens by accident. Perhaps we are destined to meet sometime. I will keep up with you via the net!
Feel free to email me anytime, I always love to talk about Kenya…

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:01:47 +0000

Hey Rusty, thanks for posting a comment. I took a quick glance at your blog and it’s eerie how much we have in common – Christ-follower, husband, dad, blogging, twitterer, Kenya trips, and recent marathon. I’ve subscribed to the RSS feed for your blog and will read more when I have a chance.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:31:47 +0000

This was my 3rd trip to Kenya and each time i leave with a major paradigm shift in my own thinking. how can I make a difference, how can I push more of my own resources in that direction, how can i take more of my friends with me. How can God use me to make a kingdom difference. All of these things are finally beginning to happen, although slow, they are opening up. I hope to keep up with your thoughts and dream via twitter, hope you will follow my journey as well on my blog. Take care, get some sleep, and don’t forget those Malaria pills??

Next year in Kenya!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:51:58 +0000

Chris,

I appreciate you thinking out loud here. Maybe I’m oversimplifying things, but maybe the best way to figure out how to tell the story is just to let the person most passionate about communicating the story run with it. On our trip, that’s what I did. We had conversations on the way home and over dinner each day, but we never planned collectively what I would blog about.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:43:51 +0000

Molly and Joe,

Blogging about the trip was the least I could do. Thanks for being such incredible hosts. You made it super easy for two people who don’t know the language, the culture, or people.

Most of all thanks for saying, “Yes” to God’s call to move to Kenya and for daily “taking up your cross” by serving in some very difficult conditions.

Jennifer and I will do everything we can to support you guys and to give others the same experience we did. It’s so easy to get caught up in the comfortable distractions of life in the U.S., to keep the harsh realities of life in the developing world out of mind, and miss the tremendous opportunities to make a significant difference in the lives of people who need it so desperately.

By: EvangelismCoach

EvangelismCoach — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:16:04 +0000

Last January, I was in Nicaragua. Our team came met in Managua. Our team was made of members from 2 countries, and 3 states in the US. We had been meeting by phone and video conference to plan and pray.

We’ve mostly worked together before, so we were not entirely strangers.

The hardest part of the trip was re-entry — those from the US going back to the routine of their life.

Scattered to three states, there wasn’t an opportunity to collectively tell the story. Nor was there an opportunity to meet again as a team.

This year, next month, I’m going to Guatemala with a similar team, from two countries. But we are being intentional in trying to figure out how to tell our story when we get back… and plan that story telling ahead of time.

We raise support, so we can tell our supporters.

We can use Animoto for music driven slide shows to embed a link into emails.

Just thinking out loud on your blog.

Chris W
EvangelismCoach.org

By: Molly & Joseph Bail

Molly & Joseph Bail — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:12:47 +0000

Thanks so much for writing this. We were so blessed to have you here with us so you and Jen could experience our world and the plight of the people we serve. We so much appreciate all that you did while you were here and we looked forward every morning to read what you wrote in your blogs. They were wonderful.
I hope you and Jen will inspire more people to take the leap and visit us in Kenya and we look forward to seeing you here again!

Love,
Molly & Joseph