After spending some time at our mission headquarters (Evangelical Baptist Missions – EBM), Bob and I have been given a new location for this year. We have been asked by ICA and EBM to join the staff at Dakar Academy in Senegal, West Africa. Already over 75 of our former ICA students have enrolled at Dakar and they are asking for our help. I will help administer the computer network while Bob will teach in the middle school. We will be leaving for Dakar some time around the 5th of November.
Our ICA director and other leaders are fully committed to reopening ICA in August 2003, God willing, and we plan to be there. For now, we are happy to be able to minister to some of the same kids, as well as other missionary children from West Africa.
As we left ‘everything’ behind in Bouake, and don’t know when we’ll get back to see if anything is still there, we will need to re-outfit in Dakar. We’ll be busy in the next few weeks, trying to decide what has to go into only 4 action packers, and what we can wait to buy in Dakar. We also have some assignments to complete for ICA before we move to Dakar, as well as speaking engagements at various churches, and we want to spend time with friends and family.
We know without a doubt that God answered your prayers for our protection over the last few weeks. We have seen some supernatural things; we have again experienced God’s direct involvement in our lives, and have felt the absolute peace that can only come from above. Thank you so much for keeping us in your prayers.