At 6 am on Thursday, November 10, both the Gallaghers and the Sanderfers are set to arrive in Senegal. Yes, both of the couples who are joining our SIM Senegal team are arriving on the same flight next week! This is such an exciting time for us and we are full of thanksgiving as we see God working out His good plan.
If you have been following our updates, you know that both couples have experienced delays. We know many of you have been praying for them; see how the Lord has answered! We will go to Dakar on Wednesday to be there to pick them up at the airport on Thursday morning. We’ll have just a short time together before we all separate: one couple will be with our SIM team in Dakar, the other with our SIM team in Thies for language study, and our family will return home to Kaffrine. By the summer, we trust both families will have enough Wolof language and cultural competency to be ready to move to Kaffrine.
We are so grateful for the Gallaghers’ and Sanderfers’ perseverance through all the trials and setbacks and hoops they have had to jump through to get to this point. And we appreciate your continued prayers for them as they begin to learn the Wolof language and culture, and for us as a team as we get to know each other. Please pray:
- for peace for the Sanderfers and Gallaghers through the goodbyes and the packing.
- for a safe, uneventful trip to Senegal on the 9th and 10th.
- for the Lord to bless our team as we get to know each other; pray that we will care for one another well and work together well.
- for God to enable them to work hard at learning Wolof and to make good progress so they will be able to communicate well and thrive here long-term.
- for the Lord to help them to adjust well to all aspects of life here.
- that God will already be preparing the hearts of those in the villages of KMN and NW that He wants to reach through our team with the Good News about Jesus!
