We have accepted a position with Mennonite Central Committee and will be moving to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in October! We will be based in Bukavu, Eastern Congo - just across the border from Rwanda, and we will be on a three year term.
I (Karen) will be a team leader ("facilitator") for a new service and learning program for young adults called Seeds. I'm currently in Pennsylvania doing training and will leave for Colombia (South America) on Thursday to visit and learn from their Seeds program. I will be working closely with the Congolese co-facilitator who is a man named Serge.
Mark will be working with a partner organization doing legal work on human rights issues. We are both excited to begin doing work along the lines of
what we’ve been dreaming of for a long time! Karen with intercultural mediation
and teaching between Christians, and Mark with human rights/anti-corruption
legal work in the developing world.
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| This is us the night we decided we were going to accept the invitation |
We are SO EXCITED! And scared and sad and tender and excited!
Please pray for:
- All of the logistics that need to fall into
place before we go.
- Karen’s relationship with her Congolese
co-facilitator, Serge.
- Mark’s placement with a legal human rights
organization.
- Our 17-year-old foster son, who will be moved
to another home.
- Discipline and success in learning French!
We're excited to share the news with you and will be blogging more as we head into the unknown.
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