Now we have been in Timboktou for almost a week. We are working together with Tommy and Danielle Aanstad and the rest of the team here in Timboktou. We are preparing for a prayer/intersession conference that is going to take place here in the end of this month. There is a house/tent and a stage that needs to get up, but we also don’t want to wait with the worship and intersession for the conference. Therefore we have worship in the morning and intersession in the evening every day with the whole team.
Timbuktu is a town that is a bit different than Bamako and Douentza. Especially that it is more spiritual darkness here. They say that it is the third most important city in Islam (after Mecca and Mehad) and they want to make it into Africa’s Mecca. If that happens it means that no churches will be allowed. But they also say that if people in Timbuktu get saved, that that will affect all of Mali. So it is a key city in many ways and we are definitely thankful for all prayersupport J
The day starts with Bible reading at 6:30, then some powertime, breakfast at 7:45, then devotion and some time to give thanks to God for what he has done the last 24 hours, then we get together with the team here in Timboctou for Worship and after that we go off to the different areas that we are going to work at for the day. Lunch at about 12 o’clock then back to work again. Maybe a prayerwalk. Then dinner and then intersession at 5:30 and about that time is when it gets dark. And when it is dark, it is dark.
The temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius now in the shade, and they say that it may get up to 42 during the conference. What a joy it is that we’re leaving right before the hot season.
There is a variety of bugs we kill every day. Bex had a mouse inside her mosquito net, then she got up and chased it around the room with a torch and a cup. Hanna and Annika just came screaming, a lizard had crawled through the window in their room. The goats enjoy our balcony until we chase them out again in the morning. Funny how all this things seem so usual, but when you think of the life back home it’s not really our daily life…
Timbuktu is a town that is a bit different than Bamako and Douentza. Especially that it is more spiritual darkness here. They say that it is the third most important city in Islam (after Mecca and Mehad) and they want to make it into Africa’s Mecca. If that happens it means that no churches will be allowed. But they also say that if people in Timbuktu get saved, that that will affect all of Mali. So it is a key city in many ways and we are definitely thankful for all prayersupport J
The day starts with Bible reading at 6:30, then some powertime, breakfast at 7:45, then devotion and some time to give thanks to God for what he has done the last 24 hours, then we get together with the team here in Timboctou for Worship and after that we go off to the different areas that we are going to work at for the day. Lunch at about 12 o’clock then back to work again. Maybe a prayerwalk. Then dinner and then intersession at 5:30 and about that time is when it gets dark. And when it is dark, it is dark.
The temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius now in the shade, and they say that it may get up to 42 during the conference. What a joy it is that we’re leaving right before the hot season.
There is a variety of bugs we kill every day. Bex had a mouse inside her mosquito net, then she got up and chased it around the room with a torch and a cup. Hanna and Annika just came screaming, a lizard had crawled through the window in their room. The goats enjoy our balcony until we chase them out again in the morning. Funny how all this things seem so usual, but when you think of the life back home it’s not really our daily life…
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Hei, tiiviisti olen seurannut teidän menoanne. Olkaa rohkeita! Vaikka vihollinen yrittää teitä pelotella niin muistakaa, että Jeesus on teidän puolella ja vihollinen on voitettu. Ei sillä ole teihin mitään valtaa. Varmasti tulee vastoinkäymisiä sillä huseeraatte vihollisen alueella, eikä se pidä siitä. Mutta keskittykää Golgatan ristillä hankittuun voittoon! Teitä siunaten Jaana
Hello team,
We are very glad that we can read about the work you do. We pray for you and for the towns you are into.
We heard that Lenneke has problems with her health and we hope and pray that it will getting better soon.
Greetings from Jan and Wouthera Vos in Holland (nunspeet)
You wrote very nicely of your DTS experience. I am a former YWAMer from the U.S., who is friends with Oivind, a Norwegian nurse, who helped those who got Malaria. I pray you are all well. God Bless.
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