It was such a crazy year! And amazing at the same time. I remember back to when I first arrived in Nairobi. I didn’t know the town, or the people, or much of the way things worked there. During the following 10 months that would certainly change!

Shooting video, making graphics, managing editing and production, working with few volunteers, coordinating with other people (sometimes a challenge!), learning how to work with people, going to record a huge series of meetings in Tanzania, getting equipment for broadcasting, setting up the equipment and testing it, preparing video content for broadcast, managing burnout, depending on God, continuing work and production, managing production and broadcasting, making playlists for each day’s broadcast, working hard editing as a volunteer for the Gospel Flames HopeTV event in Uganda, seeing the time come for us to pay the 2CBN broadcasting bill, seeing God work, seeing the wrath of the enemy, my computer stolen, proof that God is faithful, seeing people come to assist, and finally being able to hand over management to Frank. A blessed year, and yet the hardest in my life. Something I’d never done before, yet something I could never have done without God’s help. Times when I wished for death, but other times when I was glad I didn’t. Extreme loneliness, yet learning to trust God more…  2012 was indeed an extreme growing experience for me!

Shortly before I left in Dec, I thought about what would have happened if I didn’t go there in the first place. It brought tears to my eyes as I realized that everything I saw… from the programs broadcasting on the TV to the studio and the team… none of it would exist if I wouldn’t have gone. Souls that have seen our programming would have been lost if I didn’t go.

Perhaps…  God is calling you to go to some far away place to work as a missionary, to be a pioneer in His cause. Is He calling you? Then don’t delay! If you delay, souls will be lost. If you go, then you will have the privilege of being a tool in God’s hands and being used by Him. There is nothing ever in this whole world that can amount to the satisfaction of reflecting back and realizing that God used you as a tool in His hands to reach people for Him. There is nothing like it!