Some of my favorite guys in the world are headed off to Burkina Faso, Africa tomorrow, and my prayers are with them. It’s an exhausting travel schedule… Fly from Atlanta to Paris, then from Paris to Ouagadougou, BF. Almost 24 hours straight of sitting in airports, on planes, on layover…

Please pray for their safety, their vision (as in their big ideas…not their eyeballs), and ESPECIALLY their families (it seems like weird, crazy things always happen to the families back at home when we go on these kinds of trips).

I had the high honor of being on the first team from West Ridge that traveled to BF 13 months ago. I would suspect that any short-term missions trip has an impact on you. I’ve been on quite a few myself. But there was something different about my trip to Burkina Faso. Over a year later, I can still account for almost everything we did, every place we visited. It was a profound experience for me.

This will be our Lead Pastor Brian’s first trip over… He sent us last year to survey the opportunities and open doors in the country. Now he’ll be in the field seeing it all firsthand, strategizing how our church and some of the churches in our church-planting family can create a movement of bringing hope, medicine, food, and the truth of Jesus Christ to this, one of the poorest nations in the world.

So please pray for Brian, Paul, Tim, John, Steve, and Tadd. They’ll be home in ten days or so.