Monday is an important day in the Programme Resources Department at IHQ. This deparment includes the Editorial, Literary, Emergency Services, Health and Development teams from The Salvation Army's head office.
Each Monday morning they gather to pray together. This is in additional to the General's prayer meeting on a Thursday. The Monday meeting is obviously more intimate and this morning was no exception.
We were blessed to be led by a Ghanan officer. In the room were Salvationists from the UK, Australia, Germany, Canada, Ghana and India. There was a good spirit as we prayed for the people we serve in various projects, for our team that is heading out to Mali and for those that provide the support back here in London.
From there it was down to business for our team. There are four of us initially, however Damaris (from Germany) is only with us for a week as we get started. Otherwise I am joined by Carolynn from Canada and Kati from Finland. The three of us will be living and working together in Bamako and have a great opportunity to support the ongoing work of The Salvation Army there. Today we were individually briefed on our roles and then brought together for the first time to look at both the aims and budget of the project.
Tomorrow is our travel day and on Wednesday we will be starting to meet the people we will be working with on the ground. This time of preparation has been very quick, but it will be enough to get us started (we believe).
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