Our message from Dr. O'Brien on Wednesday:
"What a long day! We began training around 9:30 and went until 3:30 focusing on their marketing plan. We broke for lunch at noon and all ate together. This is the first time these young ladies have ever experienced anything like this. Some come from pretty rough backgrounds and the cosmetology training provides them with a way out.
Tomorrow we cover operating plan and financial plan. After dinner we went to worship with students from The Evangelical College of Theology. TECT students have acted as translators and facilitators for us all week. We returned to the Hope Center for some fellowship (and cake) with Christine, then back to work. The team has been working for going on 2 hours getting ready for tomorrow. I think it will be the best day yet.
Please pray for us. Even with the long day of work, this team is so willing to work into the late hours to prepare for tomorrow. They are really invested in the success of these young ladies. What a blessing to see their love and commitment!
Ok Prayer Warriors - now is the time to be fervent in our prayers. Pray for strength (physical, emotional, and spiritual for our team); pray for openness to God (for the people in Sierra Leone); continue to pray for healing for Christine (of the Hope Center). Our God is mighty and awesome and is opening hearts in Sierra Leone!
These texts and blogs are so wonderful to read! Thank you for posting. They help me to picture what their days and hours are like. I am praying, as Ross requested especially in this second half of the trip.
ReplyDeleteLord, fill these students and Ross with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that they may walk worthy of You, fully pleasing You, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in their knowledge of You; strengthened with all might, according to Your glorious power, for all patience and long-suffering with joy; giving thanks to You who have qualified them to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light" (Col. 1:9-12)
-Carolyn Roehrig