Powerful visit to Bagamoyo...

As apart of our trip to Tanzania we had the opportunity to visit a place called Bagamoyo. This is the site where all the slave caravans converged from all across West Africa and millions of salves where sent to Zanzibar island to be sold around the Middle East and Asia. This was a place of bondage of pain and of tears and blood...and Evil.

However it was also the same place the first Christian missionaries landed and used the same caravan routes to bring the Gospel to Africa. At the very end of the trail, right on the beach where the boats would have been loaded sits a large cross (see picture of Simon our Ugandan country director and I).

Last night Steve Larmey, VP for YL Africa, shared a vision that he and other senior African staff have had recently. Next summer they want to do a Prayer Caravan all the way from Bagamoyo to Uganda (some 1500 miles), with teams of people walking this entire route praying and reclaiming what was used for Evil and pain into a route of joy and hope! WOW!

We leave today for an adventure "into the Bush". We will be in a remote Massia village for the next 4 days with no Internet (and no toilets or electricity :)

Blessings