Final week before heading out

We are now 6 days away from leaving here heading to Rwanda and Burundi.  we are getting excited as a team but also facing some spiritual attacks, personal illness, families, etc.  The evil one really does not want us to go on this trip but God does.

Please pray for our team as we make our final preparations this week; Barb, Robin, Carolyn, Suzanne, Danny, Jason, Diane and John.  Also for Peace and her leaders in Rwanda and Burundi and all of the people that we will be making contact with while we are there.  We have some long travel over and back, leaving the U.S. and Canada Friday to London 6 hour layover, then to Nairobi on Saturday with another 7 hour layover then to Kigali Rwanda arriving at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.  We will be in Kigali for 4 days then we make a short 30 minute flight down to Burundi landing in Bujumbura the capital.  I think I mentioned earlier that Burundi is now considered the poorest country in the world with the average worker making $0.87 cents a day and that is to provide for their entire family(less than $300.00 per year).  Rwanda is improving some since the genocide in the 1993 but now 70% of the population is women (most men died during the genocide or AIDS).  Some reports say that the work force in Rwanda is 90% women, so you can see the need that we face there in helping them with micro enterprise and training so that they can provide for their families.

Thanks for praying.