We had the opportunity to meet with the founder of Youth With A Mission…Loren Cunningham…to ask about his visits to East Africa.
For YWAM’s 50th Anniversary celebrations next year, the regional communication team for East Africa is putting together a visual documentary of the history of YWAM in East Africa. I am gathering information from all the bases in the region to establish when and where YWAM first came to East Africa and how it spread from there.
Since we are with Loren and Darlene right now in Nigeria, I thought it would be good to take the opportunity and find out when and where he first came to
East Africa for our visual documentary.I explained my purpose to one of the LTC staff who then arranged for me to have 15 minutes with Loren just before we started the evening session.
I took Bingi with me because I knew this would be our only opportunity to have a personal meeting with Loren and I didn't want her to miss out. When we got to the door and I knocked, she stopped and backed off saying, “I’m scared. I’m scared.”
“Come on!” I said. “This is your only chance to meet Loren personally!”
We went into the guesthouse and all the other LTC leaders were there finishing supper.
After a few minutes, Loren came out and sat with us in the living room. Then he started talking.
One by one the other LTC leaders headed off to class.
But Loren kept talking.
Soon it was only me and Bingi left.
And Loren kept talking.
Concious of the time, I half-heartedly tried to leave at least 3 times,
but Loren kept talking.
Two hours later, when the other LTC leaders started coming back from class, Bingi and I said our good-byes. We couldn’t believe we had been given a private audience with Loren Cunningham for 2 hours!!!
His stories were so inspiring, encouraging and thought-provoking…I have much to process and digest.
What an amazing blessing.
Thanks, Daddy!
1 comment:
Wow, I'm so pleased for both of you to receive this time of encouragement and re-energizing. I hope that the rest of the base can draw on that as well. This has been on my heart for you guys for some time. I pray that this will be like catching the wind in your sails, hearing them whip & flap above you with all that energy, power & vitality. Hold on tight, all of you, and be ready for new things & old, changes in direction and for life to be blown into areas which felt almost dead. This could be quite exhausting, but it won't drain you to the bottom of the barrel, as has happened before, you will know that your energies will be new each morning, oh amen to to that.
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