We've already had a crazy-busy year with 2 trips to Africa so far and 4 more to go before the end of the year!
The following is a letter we just sent out to our prayer partners along with our summer prayer calendar. We hope you'll read this, view/print the prayer calendar and commit to praying for us this summer...if there's anything you'd like for us to pray about, please let us know - this is not a monologue but a conversation that we want to include you in...thank you for letting us serve you in this way! P.S. if you want some Ethiopian coffee beans mailed to you as a prayer reminder, we'd be glad to ship those off asap - just let us know!
June
11, 2009
Team
Berryman is gearing up for its first-ever back-to-back-to-back church-planting
campaigns! We depart for the heart of on June 24. Dan will lead 2 separate campaigns in Burundi and 1 campaign in Rwanda.
The Burundi teams
are small but ready to take on the challenge! We will have some unique ministry
opportunities at an orphanage and hope to be a blessing to the local pastors
during a 1-day pastor-to-pastor conference.
The Rwanda team
includes 7 students who have been praying, raising support and preparing for
this trip for many months. We anticipate
that God will use them to minister to fellow students along with many adults
and children. This team also has a
representative from Water4Rwanda who will join us in evangelism as well as meet
with local leaders to plan and discuss drilling water wells in the near future.
We’ve
enclosed 2 important items:
(1)
A prayer calendar – on the back of this letter, there’s a detailed
calendar for you to post where you can read it daily. We hope to accomplish a lot of things in a
short amount of time....please commit to partnering with us in prayer on a daily
basis if you can!!
(2)
A small bag of coffee beans from Ethiopia – Marina brought these home from
Africa just last week – we hope that you’ll enjoy the heady, earthy aroma of
these freshly roasted beans and that when you brew up a pot of coffee, you’ll
think of us and take a minute to pray for our team members and the God-sized
mission we’ve been called to in Burundi and Rwanda!
Thank
you so much for your prayers – when we partner together in prayer God is
glorified. He alone can and will
accomplish great things in us and through us!