May 2005

Dear praying Friends,

It is with great excitement and anticipation that we look forward to the arrival of fourteen folks from the States. We will host the annual Outreach Foundation mission trip to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The group will arrive Tuesday, May 10. This is a mission trip of a different kind. The group is not coming to fix, repair, build, or teach. Their goals are:

• to be an encouragement to the congregations and projects we support.
• to learn from the poor.
• to become servant-learners.
• to become advocates for the ministries and the people whom we visit when they return to their churches.

Nouwen grew to the place of saying, “Living among the poor and the children of the poor, I learned that expressing love was simpler and more natural when love was the only commodity we had to share with each other.”

What we want more than anything else for our visitors is that they will experience what Jesus said in Matthew 25: That when they speak to people, play with children, listen to peoples’ stories, worship and fellowship with folks whose language they do not know, they are doing these things unto Jesus.

Because we will be welcomed by many folks like these smiling school children from the village of Diwa in Tete Province, Mozambique, it will be easy to love Jesus as we love the people.

Please pray

• That we will be able to find all the fuel and other necessities we need for the trip.
• That we would not grow weary in well doing.
• That we will be able to see beyond the schedule to the people we are serving.
• That we would have safety in traveling.
• That we will be a source of encouragement for Church leaders.
• That we will seek to be a blessing as we serve.
• That hearts and minds would be open to seeing Jesus in all we do.

In His Service,

Bob and Bobbi Snyder

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