highlights of my commioning and updates on my mission work

 around early June, I and my fellow global mission fellows from the Africa region traveled to Cot devoir where we were commissioned together with four Global missionaries, by the bishop of the ivory coast united Methodist annual conference and Reverenced Judy Chang. this was the first time I got to meet most of my coworkers in person, although I had seen some of them at Africa university we never talked and got to know each other. we shared a lot of great experiences.
during our commissioning, a lot of things stood out to me. but what stood out to me most was the Wesleyan covenant prayer.
“I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, place me with whom you will. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be put to work for you or set aside for you, Praised for you or criticized for you. Let me be full, let me be empty. Let me have all things, let me have nothing. I freely and fully surrender all things to your glory and service. And now, O wonderful and holy God, Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, you are mine, and I am yours. So be it. And the covenant which I have made on earth, Let it also be made in heaven. Amen.”

 the prayer constantly kept reminding me of how i should be selfless so that i can serve better to the glory of God 


 




 a few days after i came back from the commissioning event, i started working on my garden, whilst in CoteDevior I managed to get some vegetable seeds from Zambia that I have always been thinking of trying out. thanks to Albaka Wakili a global mission fellow serving in zambia who managed to bring these seeds for me. The seeds I got included rape, Chinese cabbage and Swiss chard. I planted them a bit earlier before the soil was wet enough, most of them could not grow well but a few individual plants survived and they are doing amazingly great. this gives me so much hope and am working on replanting them now.











 lately i have also been working with the high school students on agriculture things the future farmers of Africa club has been doing awesome. i meet the students once in a week and we usually meet on Thursdays, some of the activities that we carry out at the high school club include, debate and public speaking. i also do presentations on how to grow different crops as well as talk about nutrition and the different nutrients found in different crops.







thank you so much for your support through prayer and donations, if you wish to support my work you can always make a donation to my advance account ##3022544
thank you and may the good lord continue blessing you !!

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