Rwanda Team Update #5

Being on a mission trip it’s easy to either forget about your loved ones or miss them so much you are not much good on the trip. You start calling the sponsored child “my” girl or boy. But that’s not what it’s about. Sure, I’ve been taking pictures with them so my husband at home knows I was actually here in Africa (wow am I really here???), but I think until today it never really hit home how much of a shared experience this really is for me, and my husband in particular.

Today is when I missed him the most since I’ve gotten here, so I called. I remember he is living the same, normal life we always live, only without me. Maybe that’s not much of a sacrifice, some might say, but he tells me it is, and I rather believe him.

So, Bobby, on behalf of all these little African kids who wave and hug and stare, thank you. When that perspective is broadened, my immediate family also makes a sacrifice of their mother. Then I’d like to think my extended family shares some in missing me.  They all are who gave me the courage and the backing to be able to make this journey of faith. And everyone who donated or who owns a cookbook shares in this ministry team’s success in the Kingdom of God. You are all the fabric through which the bright colors of the ministry team stands apart.

Marilyn Dickenson