Tuesday, May 8I'm sitting in the Minneapolis Airport wondering what the Lord will show me next. I'm on my way to Bahrain. Originally, it was hoped I would travel to both Africa and either north Africa or the Middle East to encounter Islam in the same trip. But situations made that impossible, so it is a separate trip.
Please continue to pray as I make this journey. Here's the schedule:
Leave Minneapolis at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, and arrive in Bahrain at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday (local time).
Thursday May 10:
- Visit Al Raja school where Trinity missionaries work and Jamie Ongna (TRC attender in NWC days) teaches.
- Visit Arabic-speaking congregation.
Friday, May 11:
- Preach at 10:30 a.m. worship service (English language congregation).
- Visit T.E.E. (Theological Education by Extension).
- See a play at Al Raja
Saturday, May 12:
- Visit with Jamie Ongna
- Visit with Bruce Williams
Sunday, May 13:
- Preach at Hospital chapel service
- Preach at church
Monday, May 14:
- Visit church board and the labor camp.
Tuesday, May 15
- Visit with RCA mission personnel
- Leave for home (10:00 p.m.)
- Arrive in Orange City during Ride Night at Tulip Festival!
I'll be staying with Trinity-supported missionaries Dick and Maja Westra. To learn more about how the Reformed Church serves in Bahrain, click here.
Prayer:
1. Save travel
2. Joyful time of learning, resting, and enjoying what God is doing in Bahrain.
3. Save times for Ann and the kids. This is the only week that I am totally separated from everyone else.
4. Maja Westra - her mother in Edmonton, Canada is very ill and she made an emergency trip back to the Canada to be with her.
