February 6, 2007 by Beth.

We are happy to announce that Andrea Herman is finally on the way to Guinea! She was scheduled to come some weeks ago but because of the strike we decided to hold it off as traveling was not safe within the country. She will be arriving tonight at 9:10 PM our time (4:10 PM EST) so we’d appreciate your prayers that all goes well and that God blesses our time together here as a field. Tim and Heidi Norton will arrive tomorrow and all will be staying in the newly opened “Conakry Lutheran Guesthouse”! We’re so thankful to the Kansas District for helping us to make that guesthouse a reality. Of course as things go here, just before all these guests arrive we are having water trouble (James and Tiina May can tell you that this only happens when guests are coming!!) and my house helper quit. Sigh. Such is life. HOWEVER, we’re excited to add Andrea to our team here and beg your prayers for her as she begins her new ministry among the Maninka women in Siguiri. She’ll jump right into language learning when she arrives and is anxious to get to know the people she is working with. We’re so thankful too that things have remained calm enough here in Guinea that we are able to do this. We will spend about a week together as a team, getting reacquainted and sharing and praying together.

Thank you all again for your incredible support while we were going through our “crisis” here. We appreciate each letter sent and know that prayers were flying fast toward the heavens. Continue to pray for changes here in Guinea and for resolution to all the troubles, for good leadership and especially that God will open the ears of all hearing His glorious message!

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February 6, 2007 by Beth.

I guess this is a good place to start as we are sort of at the end of all the most recently trouble, the strike and all. For a while it looked like it might start up again today, so we thought of actually cancelling Andrea’s arrival yet again, but waited till closer to the date. All is totally calm today, a normal day here in Conakry. So Andrea will arrive tomorrow night. Tim and Heidi Norton will come down the next day and we’ll all work to get stuff done while they are here…shopping for Andrea for supplies, etc., orientation stuff, and a field meeting. On Saturday we will head to Dalaba, a town about 6 hours or so away. It’s higher up so a bit cooler which will be nice. We’re looking forward to the time together.

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