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Tomorrow we leave for Kenya.

A team of eleven of us who have never been to Africa will be embarking on a mission to assist local churches in Nairobi develop leaders and to reach out to local schools.

To say the least, this is a little intimidating and humbling. A group of people from Kahawa Sukari Baptist Church came here a little over a year ago and asked us to come and do a youth worker’s conference and a basketball clinic. My first thought was, “what do we have to teach them? The African church is amazing!”

Beyond that, American missions to Africa have been a mixed bag. Some have been great and life-giving. Others in hindsight did some damage.

Nonetheless, we were invited to come and share some of the things we have learned about youth ministry here in Chicago, and so we go.