FES September TermPrayer Requests
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Strength & Guidance as God is helping me learn about WestAfrica and His will for the next 8 months.
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Please pray that the Lord would keep myself and all of theFES families safe traveling from Ouagadougou to our homemission fields (9/21-9/22). Pray that God would use thesepast three weeks to uplift these families with great fellowshipfor their children and their ministries.
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Please be in prayer for my fellow long-term missionariesserving this year, for the opportunity to live out Christ’s lovein our lives on the mission field.
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That God would be in the lives of the Fluegge children andthat I would be effective in their growth and learning.
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Pray that God will continue to be with Jesse as he has beenso brave with his broken elbow. Pray that God would keepGlenn & Jesse safe as they travel to and from the children’shospital in Paris for Jesse’s surgery. Also, that God willgive Jesse a speedy recovery that will result in the fullmobility of his elbow.
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The students at the CLET, that God would steady theirhearts to pursue their calls to leadership training in servingthe Lutheran Church in West Africa.
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Health. Please pray that God would keep us from sicknessand strengthen our bodies in the heat.
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The ministries of all our FES families, including linguisticstraining and/or translation, medical missions, churchplanting, and theological studies, throughout West Africa.
AN INSIGHT INTO THE MINISTRY OF LCMS LONG-TERM MISSIONARY MEGAN BIRNEY SERVINGCHRIST IN TOGO, WEST AFRICA
SEPTEMBER 2008
Togo!Togo!Togo!Togo!
I hope September has found you all in great spirits!After three months of summer weather, I know I amready for a cool down! However, here in West Africathere isn’t a real reprieve from the heat. However, Iam looking forward to the ‘harmattan’ when the rainssubside and while the days are still hot, the humiditylifts and the nights cool down. We have been stayingin Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso for the past threeweeks for FES (Field Educational System), which is aprogram that allows the children of missionaries inisolated villages in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, andNiger to come together and participate in groupschooling. I have been having a great time teaching inthis program and witnessing the pure joy that comesfrom these children being together. There are twenty-three children (ages 6-13) in twelve families involvedin the program. Three teachers, including myself, runthree separate age groups. I have been working withCaleb and three other 1st & 2nd grade boys (Josh,Benji, & Josh) in language arts which is fun, but hasproven to be a challenge corralling four spinning at-tention spans into one activity. They are all great storytellers who love Dr. Seuss and have therefore won myheart. In the mid-morning, I spend my time attempt-ing to teach math to the 5th-8th grade group (Abigail,Timmy, Mikaela, Jonathan, Angela, Nat, Emily, Ka-tie, Abby, Daniel, & Joshua.) I’ve gotten great at im-provising math games to suit students studying topicsranging from fractions to algebra! They are an awesomegroup and it’s so neat to see them thrive in the funcompetition that the classroom presents. God has truly blessed me through these children. On our way here,we had a flat tire and our housing arrangements wereless than ideal and the culmination of these stressfulsituations came crashing down on me. I just began tofeel like I couldn’t handle this mission, that it was toohard and I didn’t feel purposed. God’s grace is suffi-cient and the first day walking into that classroom(completely unprepared due to circumstances!) I was inawe of where God had brought me all over again. Beingwilled by Christ in the capacity of teaching these chil-dren has been an incredible experience and has re-minded me of the true surrender that missionary workdemands. “But thanks be to God, who always leads uninto triumph in Christ, and manifests through us thesweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.”
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