Dear Vicki and all all my sisters on the 2012 Ubuntu team to Sierra Leone,
A big THANK YOU to all of you for choosing to come and share with us the love of Christ in Sierra Leone. You may not have known this but you all were a true blessing to all the women with whom you came in contact a tthe various places you visited. Thank you also for enduring the our Bumpy roads, hot and humid weather, mosquitoes and for sharing meals you may never have eating before all in the name of Jesus Christ. You warmed our hearts and made us feel that we are because you are and that you are because we are. Thank you for the light you brought into our lives and the joys you shared.Together with God, we all learnt what it means to "launch out into the deep" and by the grace of God, we will commit ourselves to doing just that.
May the joy of Christmas and the peace of a blessed new year be yours
now and always. Bishop Yambasu
Vickie writes: A big THANK YOU to all of you for choosing to come and share with us the love of Christ in Sierra Leone. You may not have known this but you all were a true blessing to all the women with whom you came in contact a tthe various places you visited. Thank you also for enduring the our Bumpy roads, hot and humid weather, mosquitoes and for sharing meals you may never have eating before all in the name of Jesus Christ. You warmed our hearts and made us feel that we are because you are and that you are because we are. Thank you for the light you brought into our lives and the joys you shared.Together with God, we all learnt what it means to "launch out into the deep" and by the grace of God, we will commit ourselves to doing just that.
May the joy of Christmas and the peace of a blessed new year be yours
now and always. Bishop Yambasu
As we continue to de-brief, un-pack and 'launch out' into our ordinary daily lives, we come to know God has surely imparted to us anything BUT an ordinary life! We have experienced the EXTRA ordinary and this experience is now part of who we are, in mind, body and spirit.
We are working to get in the spirit of Christmas after having such wonderful times, meaningful encounters, and making incredible new friends through Christ. I really think our season of Advent began on December 2 when we departed on our Ubuntu Journey. When asked how our new friends from SL celebrated Christmas, nearly everyone said....by attending church and sharing a meal with family and friends. For us Northern folks, to be thinking and decorating and planning for Christmas seemed different. Don't we have to be cold when doing so? Enjoy the Christmas store we passed in Freetown. Merry Christmas wherever you are.
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| Santa is way over dressed... only about 90 degrees that day. |
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