Well, we have been busy since we have gotten back to the U.S. Teresa and I shared all the information, pictures and video from our trip with all of our friends and family and we had a strategy meeting with Mark. As we discussed the issues facing the social infrastructure of the beautiful country, we realized that many if not most of the problems stem from a leadership crisis. As God raises up courageous leaders in that country, then things will begin to change. We outlined a few ideas that we had for helping Lesotho. Here are some of the things we have discussed:

—3 year campaignLeadership Lesothoin conjunction with John Maxwell’s leadership teaching organization,Equip. This would involve bringing a team from Victory Church and coordinating with ministries there in Lesotho to bring leadership teaching to not only the churches, but also the government and civic arenas as well.—Conferences to be held in conjunction with the Leadership Lesotho meetings. These conferences would have a specialized target audience each time. Some would be for women, men, youth, families, business owners, general public, etc. Again, a team from Victory Church would go each time to work and minister at the conferences.—Monthly financial support to various ministries in Lesotho—Media resources needed—CDs, curriculum, computers, software, etc—We discussed involving Barb Swanson and the women of the Beautiful Conference in focusing on assisting Africa

As Teresa and I presented these ideas to Mark, he was very favorable and excited to think of what God wanted to do with Victory Church in helping in Africa, but he is also a good businessman and understands that as the Bible says, “Don’t build a building without counting the cost”, so he has asked Teresa and I to put together a spreadsheet (not my strength!!) of projected costs over the next 3-5 years to be reviewed. Teresa has been working on this with Gay Jacobs. There is a lot of research and planning and collecting of estimated costs to be done. We are almost to the point of review of this information.

I will keep you posted. Continue to pray for resources for this endeavor and continue to pray about how God may want to involve you in this work.

Blessings to all,
Jennifer