It’s been a while I know, but this boy has still been wrestling with Africa – or the role I should be playing there. I have the sore back (courtesy of a pinched nerve!) to show for it. Not quite Jacob’s limp, but hey it’s something.
What I have been wrestling with over the past month or so is May 2010. Amahoro is on again, this time in Mombasa, Kenya in the first week of May. But the Churches of Christ Global Mission Partners are having a solidarity “tour” of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo (where I went after Amahoro last year) to encourage the local pastors and participate in a pastor’s conference as well. That occurs in the last week of May & the first week of June. My participation in both is unlikely, and neither has been officially confirmed from a work point of view.
So, it looks like I am going to have to choose one. Everything I learned from Amahoro was to be a friend to Africa, to form a partnership somewhere and invest in that. I must admit, I fell in love with Bulawayo when I was there. I loved the people and feel that I have begun some partnerships that I would like to see grow. Amahoro was amazing from an imput and challenge point of view…but just at this moment Bulawayo’s call seems to be a more logical working out of Amahoro. 
It’s hard. I’d love to do both but realistically am not in a position to do that. In the back of my mind I have the idea that Amahoro would be great in 2011, after I have experienced some more and prolonged Zimbabwean exposure, and maybe have some real partnerships to speak about and have spoken in to. I feel such a debt of gratitude to Claude and Kelly, Marius and so many others who ran Amahoro in 2009. But part of that debt means I want to show up and say: I’ve stopped processing long enough to DO something…
But hey, it’s agood dilemma to work through. Either would be God ordained and blessed, I’m sure.
