3 weeks today (Friday) the CRED Uganda Team of 30 mainly young people arrive in Kampala. 3 weeks on Sunday, the CRED Ethiopia (AHISDO) Team of 30 mainly young people arrive in Addis Ababa. And 4 weeks today, the CRED India Team also of 30 mainly young people arrive in Hyderabad, and then journey to Rajahmundry.
3 teams, 90 people (yes, mainly young!), visiting 3 CRED partners and working with approximately 1200 people (very rough guess, but one of the teams alone will be working with about 450 children, so a fairly conservative estimate).
Each person on each team has up to 46kg of baggage allowance. If we let them have a quarter of that for their own possessions, that leaves about 34kg per person for resources to bless the communities. 90 people taking out 34kg each - that's 3060 kg of blessings!
And each team will be doing approximately 7 hours of work per day for the Monday to Friday, and some even do extra on the Saturday. So that's 90 people doing 35 hours each of volunteer work for the projects, ie 3150 hours of love being poured out on street kids, marginalised and vulnerable children, people living in slums, some suffering from leprosy! Not bad at all!!
So that's one direction of the trips, but the other aspect to consider is that those 90 people will have first hand experience of God's Kingdom work going on; through working with, chatting to and hearing testimonies from project staff and beneficiaries. They'll have many opportunities to see people celebrating life and faith, in conditions that from a secular viewpoint are really worthy of celebration. And they'll have time to think it all through, and wonder, and reflect, and process.
All sounds pretty exciting huh! The multi-faceted benefits of these trips are so wonderful, the multi-direction missional aspect is a privilege to be part of.
The teams are all meeting at various points in the coming week to make final plans, sort out resources, practice lessons, and just get excited together! Please pray for them, and for all of us, as we prepare them for trips that will change many lives.
3 teams, 90 people (yes, mainly young!), visiting 3 CRED partners and working with approximately 1200 people (very rough guess, but one of the teams alone will be working with about 450 children, so a fairly conservative estimate).
Each person on each team has up to 46kg of baggage allowance. If we let them have a quarter of that for their own possessions, that leaves about 34kg per person for resources to bless the communities. 90 people taking out 34kg each - that's 3060 kg of blessings!
And each team will be doing approximately 7 hours of work per day for the Monday to Friday, and some even do extra on the Saturday. So that's 90 people doing 35 hours each of volunteer work for the projects, ie 3150 hours of love being poured out on street kids, marginalised and vulnerable children, people living in slums, some suffering from leprosy! Not bad at all!!
So that's one direction of the trips, but the other aspect to consider is that those 90 people will have first hand experience of God's Kingdom work going on; through working with, chatting to and hearing testimonies from project staff and beneficiaries. They'll have many opportunities to see people celebrating life and faith, in conditions that from a secular viewpoint are really worthy of celebration. And they'll have time to think it all through, and wonder, and reflect, and process.
All sounds pretty exciting huh! The multi-faceted benefits of these trips are so wonderful, the multi-direction missional aspect is a privilege to be part of.
The teams are all meeting at various points in the coming week to make final plans, sort out resources, practice lessons, and just get excited together! Please pray for them, and for all of us, as we prepare them for trips that will change many lives.
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