On August 12 2010, a team of ordinary people who worship an extraordinary God set out from Harvest Bible Chapel of Prescott and boarded a plane with little more than what ordinary people usually bring on an overseas trip. The most important item, however, didn't require any luggage at all...they were carrying the Light of the World to the continent of Africa.
As pilgrims and missionaries have done from the time of Christ, they gathered together for weeks before the trip, to pray and seek the Lord for direction, guidance, protection, provision and purpose. They overcame barriers one after another, financial hurdles, governments, travel arrangements, immunizations, illnesses, entry into schools and hospitals, equipment. Again and again, they saw the Lord open doors for them in miraculous ways.
They are traveling from a small town in central Arizona to Senegal, Dakar, Johannesburg and Durban on a 37 hour journey by car, plane and bus. They range in age from 14 to nearly 70. They come from different families, different cultures, different backgrounds, different lives, but they share a common goal: to lift high the name of Jesus and share His love with everyone they encounter along the way: young or old, sick or healthy, rich or desperately needy. Their desire and prayer is simply to serve their King in whatever way He should choose to use them.
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