Monday, October 11, 2010

Here We Go!

Well the Polk family finally has a blog! And it's for a great reason- We are going to AFRICA! We are so excited! We are going on a 2 week mission trip to Kilgali, Rwanda on December 26, 2010. We've had a heart for Africa for some time now and kept trying to figure out exactly what we were supposed to do, and right now we feel called to go and serve! We are going to be teaching the local children about Jesus and helping to put on a sports camp for them as well. We also plan to visit an orphanage and do some prayer walks in several towns of Rwanda. We wanted to keep everyone updated on our trip and journal all of the adventures we have while there! We would love it if we could get your prayers for this trip. We hope to be a blessing to the missionaries in Rwanda as well as the children we will be in contact with everyday. We know this will be a life-changing trip for us and our 3 kids and we just can't wait!

5 comments:

  1. Woohoo!!! I am the first person to post! I am so glad that the Polk family finally has a blog!!! We can't wait for y'all to go to Rwanda and just know that we will be praying for you guys! We think the Polks are awesome! Way to go Team Polk!

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  2. This is AWESOME news!!! So happy for your whole family to get to have this amazing experience. No doubt you will be as blessed by serving as those you serve will be blessed by you!!! We will be eager to follow along on this journey via your blog (I would love to add your blog link to our new blog--if that's ok). We also have a heart for Africa and are in the beginning stages of adopting from Ethiopia. My heart has been broken over and over as I've become more aware of the poverty, death, disease, orphan crisis, etc. that this beautiful continent faces daily. So thankful your family is opening your hearts to this call!!!

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  3. This is AWESOME news!!! So happy for your whole family to get to have this amazing experience. No doubt you will be as blessed by serving as those you serve will be blessed by you!!! We will be eager to follow along on this journey via your blog (I would love to add your blog link to our new blog--if that's ok). We also have a heart for Africa and are in the beginning stages of adopting from Ethiopia. My heart has been broken over and over as I've become more aware of the poverty, death, disease, orphan crisis, etc. that this beautiful continent faces daily. So thankful your family is opening your hearts to this call!!!

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  4. I am just so in awe of our Lord...that He has called us to care for the least of these and is working out EVERY detail, including an amazing group of people to share this journey to Africa with! What a blessing community will be in all of this, and I am so glad that community involves my bro and sis! I am so excited for you and LOVE that we will be able to follow along via your blog. Love you!

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  5. Oh my goodness, I'm SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!!!!!! We need to talk about this!! I'm so excited that you will be loving on orphans in a country that literally has our heart. And, I can't wait to follow you on the blog! God is doing some crazy amazing things. We have to catch up soon!!!

    Love you guys and are already in prayer for all five of you!! (can I please squeeze in your luggage? I wanna go SO bad.)

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