Explanations

"please help me learn Maasai people."

I have been given the opportunity to travel to Nairobi, Kenya and work with the Maasai tribe at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro from June 1 through July 5.

Now, some may think this sounds like a normal, mission trip kind of deal. I don't know if you could be more wrong.

I will be working with Maasai tribes, seeing and understanding how Westernization has affected their culture, handing out AIDs medicines and working in HIV/AIDs clinics, learning about herbal medicines and witch doctors, attending classes about field research, and learning Swahili. The trip is not sponsored by a Christian organization and has no ties to any Baptist conventions or conferences; however, I feel God has called me to study abroad this summer in Kenya. The month of June will combine all my passions in life: missions, Africa, helping people, loving people, and learning.

All I ask for right now is prayer. Pray: that I will follow God's plan and trust in His timing; that the Lord will begin to work on the hearts of the Maasai tribe; and that God would begin to expand the compassion in my heart for this trip and the people who will be impacting me while I'm over there.

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