Outreach (by Thom)

This is an exciting weekend for the missions community in Senegal. Each year Dakar Academy, a local boarding school, sends out all willing high school students on an outreach trip into several small villages in the interior of Senegal.
This morning at about 5am several vans loaded up to take the kids out to the bush where they will break up into teams like child evangelism, roofing churches, building benches, drama team, and others. Each evening there will be evangelism films, drama presentations, music and preaching.
You might think "Over 100 high school students in the bush? This won't end well..." However, these kids have done wonderful jobs over the years and have displayed maturity beyond their years, leading to many new people responding to the Gospel.
It so happens that this year the outreach trip coincides with a major national and spiritual holiday - Muhammad's birthday. Please stand in prayer with these students during their outreach trip. They should be returning Sunday afternoon and the church will be having a special service Sunday evening to provide a recap of the trip.