Dear Friends,
It has been a while since I have connected with you in this blog. I have left Lusaka and made the journey back to the United States where I am at the moment. I have spent the first almost three weeks of this trip in the Seattle area where my childhood and adult roots were and are. I have been on Itineration Assignment here in Seattle; recovering from jet lag, attempting to acquire an organized system for traveling and living out of a suitcase, preaching, joining Presbyterian Women at lunch, and conducting adult Question and Answer sessions at several local churches.
Tomorrow I will leave this region of the United States and head for Detroit, Michigan. There I will join thousands of other Presbyterians at the General Assembly. I am looking forward to this time of fellowship and deliberating on how the Triune God is at work in the life of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
From this time of transition into the work of the church I will move into another period of Itineration Assignment which will take me back to the West Coast to the Presbytery of the Cascades (and my Presbytery of membership) and then to the heartland of Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania I will be on the staff of the New Wilmington Mission Conference and then will remain for a few days in the bounds of Shenango Presbytery preaching and doing presentations before I return to my home base of Louisville, Kentucky.
I continue to await word of my return to South Sudan and the time of the reopening of the Nile Theological College. As of this moment the situation in South Sudan remains volatile and uncertain. Children are out of school foraging for leaves and water lilies to supplement the meager rations that organizations such as the United Nations are able to provide to IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) in refugee camps or on United Nations bases. There is a real concern that famine may come in the near future to many thousands or millions of people in South Sudan.
Please continue to pray for the country of South Sudan and in particular for the faculty, staff and students of the Nile Theological College. The longer the disruption of education is prolonged the harder it may become to resume it.
Blessings,
Debbie
It has been a while since I have connected with you in this blog. I have left Lusaka and made the journey back to the United States where I am at the moment. I have spent the first almost three weeks of this trip in the Seattle area where my childhood and adult roots were and are. I have been on Itineration Assignment here in Seattle; recovering from jet lag, attempting to acquire an organized system for traveling and living out of a suitcase, preaching, joining Presbyterian Women at lunch, and conducting adult Question and Answer sessions at several local churches.
Tomorrow I will leave this region of the United States and head for Detroit, Michigan. There I will join thousands of other Presbyterians at the General Assembly. I am looking forward to this time of fellowship and deliberating on how the Triune God is at work in the life of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
From this time of transition into the work of the church I will move into another period of Itineration Assignment which will take me back to the West Coast to the Presbytery of the Cascades (and my Presbytery of membership) and then to the heartland of Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania I will be on the staff of the New Wilmington Mission Conference and then will remain for a few days in the bounds of Shenango Presbytery preaching and doing presentations before I return to my home base of Louisville, Kentucky.
I continue to await word of my return to South Sudan and the time of the reopening of the Nile Theological College. As of this moment the situation in South Sudan remains volatile and uncertain. Children are out of school foraging for leaves and water lilies to supplement the meager rations that organizations such as the United Nations are able to provide to IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) in refugee camps or on United Nations bases. There is a real concern that famine may come in the near future to many thousands or millions of people in South Sudan.
Please continue to pray for the country of South Sudan and in particular for the faculty, staff and students of the Nile Theological College. The longer the disruption of education is prolonged the harder it may become to resume it.
Blessings,
Debbie
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