The great part of yesterday was having Tim and Graham from World Horizons with us. Tim was a member of an expedition to Morocco that both Anne and I were part of in 1978. We haven't seen him since then, so it was a special day for us.
During that expedition we travelled overland through France and Spain into Morocco. For three weeks 16 people shared a 17 seater transit minibus. It took two long days to drive from Le Harve to Algeciras in Spain, but we all seemed to take in our stride.
From Algeciras we took the ferry to Ceuta in northern Morocco. For the next couple of weeks we visited Tangiers, Casablanca, Marrakesh and Fez. We met missionaries working among the Moroccan people and heard stories about the challenges and blessing they experienced.
That overland trip was a significant step along the way of my call to ministry. I'm not going to suggest that I wouldn't have entered ministry if I hadn't gone, I'm sure God would have used other means, but it was a valuable and important opportunity to listen to God's voice. It was as if being in a different culture opened your eyes to the possibilities.
Tim, who came yesterday, became a missionary in West Africa, Gail and Jill, two more members of that expedition spent time in Morocco. Perhaps it would be overstating things to suggest that our particular expedition was any more important than any other, but for those of us who made the trip it was a life-changing experience, at least for some.
So I'm excited about the possibility of some of the folk from church making some sort of expedition to the Gambia to deliver our crate of school supplies. Delivering the crate will be great, but the opportunity to hear God's call is just as exciting.
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