So we are now at the Dulles International Airport. We are going in with a small team to hopefully finish up the Congocast project and figure out the next steps for the women that Robin and Wendy worked with while they lived in the DR Congo. As I write this Robin and the rest of our team are trying to get some sleep on the floor of our gate awaiting our flight out of the country – and back to the DRC.

I’m amazed by the premise that I will be arriving back in Congo soon. I was given the opportunity to visit once before for this project about a year and a half ago – and the experience is still a part of my psyche. But since then, like all things – the memories have been dulled – and the emotions have been softened by that great arbiter of forgetfulness – time.

My hope for this trip is that those feelings of hope that I left with so long ago will once again arise. It’s not that they ever left – but the noise and busyness of our culture at home serve as a colossal distraction sometimes to what it is that is truly important. Our goal with this project has been to help raise the awareness of the humanitarian situation in the DRC – but my hope for this trip is that we will see more than the needs of a nation – but that in the stillness of the chaos that Congo offers – we will see not just the story of a people in need – but the story of our Creator and how his hand is shaping the lives of these people abroad. We will try and write again soon… (if we can find someplace to do so!)

TUNE IN / CHANGE THE WORLD