Gateway Teams

January 12, 2007

Greetings from Yaounde, Cameroon and the NAB Youth Pastors Gateway Team!

Thanks so much for your prayers as we have already been in need of them! Our training time in Chicago from January 7-10 went very well and the team really developed a bond as we shared time together. We spent time training for cross-cultural ministry, sharing different aspects of the country of Cameroon that we researched and discussing the personal spiritual growth we each hope to see in our lives. And, we had Dennis Gulley, from Edmonton, AB, with us to help us understand how to communicate the Sonlife Africa Strategy Discipleship material.

We discovered early on that the development of relationships with Cameroonian youth workers, hearing their needs and praying for them was to be more important than any thing we could offer them by way of teaching. But, we’ve also discovered upon coming to Cameroon and meeting with our hosts, Godwill Ncham, Daniel Wango and Richard A. that much is being anticipated from our time together. So, we prayed and discussed that we will, above all things, seek out God’s heart for this time and listen closely to the Holy Spirit for the right words and to share the right things.

Please pray that we would do just that!

Thank you for your prayers for our safe travel. We did arrive safely in Douala yesterday evening, but unfortunately 19 of our 22 pieces of baggage (we were carrying a number of boxes for NAB with us as well) never made it here. And only 2 of the 6 members of our team have their suitcases so we are sharing clothes and other items until we receive our own baggage, hopefully on Monday in Bamenda.

The delayed baggage also included a projector and all the copies of the Sonlife participant manuals we had copied for our seminars. So we’re trying to make due here as the team as split up between Kumba and Yaounde for this first weekend, by having some copies of the manuals made.

So please pray that we would have what we need for our future ministry as that delayed baggage comes.

Again, thank you all so much for your continued support of the Gateway Teams ministry in general and for praying specifically for this very important time with this youth worker training team here in Cameroon this month. Please continue to check this blog for more updates as we continue on this month.

Blessings!

Randy Schmor