Our Invitation to Malawi
October 7, 2008
That’s ME at the Johannesburg, South Africa Airport - we were in the air for 23 hours!
I had no intention of going to Africa and saw no real possibility of going, so it was not on my radar. Sherman had been to Kenya and really wanted to return.
In March I prayed with my co-workers that God would release me into the calling He had for me and since that time things have pretty much been a whirlwind. Part of that was the invitation to minister at the Malawi National Assemblies of God Women’s Conference, which came from our friend and pastor Chris Beard at First Christian Assembly of God in Cincinnati. www.fcacincinnati.org He met with Sherman a month before he asked me, but Sherman didn’t tell me ’cause he thought I might say no.
At first when I was asked I thought Chris said Maui he said it so fast. But since God had already been opening a lot of doors, I knew I had to say yes.
I was very nervous about going to Africa because I’m an American and I didn’t necessarily have a nationalist perspective about Africa. All the propaganda about Africa did not lend me to wanting to go there. I, unlike Alex Haley, don’t know my roots to any country in Africa. This didn’t bother me much since as an adopted person I don’t even know who my parents are.
However it was undeniably God, so we asked Pastor Chris to send us with someone who had already gone there in October of 2007. He chose a wonderful couple, Tim & Audrey Holtzman, and we began to raise the funds to go…
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