{Krista Goes to Africa}

This post is a somewhat bittersweet one for me. I'm so proud of the faith and courage of my sister, but we all miss her sorely as she now lives half a world away. As some of you may know by now, about a year ago, Krista felt that she was being called to move to Africa. This past Friday, January 8th, Krista and I celebrated our 28th birthday here in San Antonio. On Saturday, January 9th, we all got up at about 5 in the morning, headed to the airport in 18 degree weather, and saw Krista off as she moved to Senegal, Africa... where she will spend the next 2 years serving God and ministering to the Fulakunda people.

The Fulakunda are a largely muslim people group, and aside from spending time building relationships with them, she will also be helping to coordinate church groups who go over there on mission trips. She is passionate about Africa and it's people, and has previously been on 4 trips to Northern Africa and Uganda. Before leaving, Krista spent 2 months in Virginia in training, and while she was there, she made a great prayer card to give out, and she greatly covets your prayers during her time over there.

As you can see, she's included an address where you can email her while she is over there. She has also started a blog to chronicle her time over there... the link is on the card as well, and you can also find her on my "Friend's Blogs" list to the left of this page.

I am extremely excited to see everything that God is going to do through her while she is there, all the while hoping that 2 years will go by quickly and that she will be back before we know it! Again, please be praying for her and for the thousands of other missionaries like her who are spread out all over the world sharing God's love.