Time
is flying, we are now in July and its only 3 weeks till we fly to Chad. It only
seems a few weeks back that we were packing up our house in Uganda, 8 months
pregnant preparing for 6 months in UK. That has now come and gone and Chad
really is just around the corner.
We daily spin through a mixture of emotions as we complete our final preparations, from excitement, to worry, to confusion to great expectations and everything in between. So what have we been up to, to get to this point?
The decision to go...
Here is a quick brief plotted history as to how we got here...
July 2011 - after finishing his work with CURE International and a year of short-term consultancies, Sam started working for MAF Uganda as their interim Finance Manager. It was just an eight month post as one international staff member left and they waited for the next finance manager to arrive, but it was also the start of a new journey for us as a family. During that period we spent great amount of time was spent searching and seeking to find what the right next step might be for us as a family. Starting with MAF felt like a great opportunity for a change but only God knew what was really in store.
For many years we had talked about going into mission and we knew that our previous work within the commercial sector, with mission agencies and with NGO's travelling all over Africa was each for a season as we built up our skill base and our resources to be able to better support ourselves in mission. We thought we had it all worked out and entering the mission field in our minds was still a few years away! God had other ideas! As Sam settled into his role with MAF he felt more and more as though this was the place to be. So then the conversations began about a possible further longer-term role with MAF after the interim finance role with MAF Uganda finished.
February 2012 - we travelled to the UK for interviews with MAF International in Ashford. Although in our minds we were exploring possibilities of becoming an international mission family to continue working in Uganda, it very quickly became evident that MAF had other ideas about location due to greater needs within other country programmes. So after intense interviews and some time enjoying the freezing weather in the UK, we receive the great news that we have been accepted and they would like Sam to be the Country Director in Chad! Yes you read it right, Chad! To be honest we didn't know anything about Chad or even where it was exactly, but on that snowy freezing cold day, our journey to the desert began!
We daily spin through a mixture of emotions as we complete our final preparations, from excitement, to worry, to confusion to great expectations and everything in between. So what have we been up to, to get to this point?
The decision to go...
Here is a quick brief plotted history as to how we got here...
July 2011 - after finishing his work with CURE International and a year of short-term consultancies, Sam started working for MAF Uganda as their interim Finance Manager. It was just an eight month post as one international staff member left and they waited for the next finance manager to arrive, but it was also the start of a new journey for us as a family. During that period we spent great amount of time was spent searching and seeking to find what the right next step might be for us as a family. Starting with MAF felt like a great opportunity for a change but only God knew what was really in store.
For many years we had talked about going into mission and we knew that our previous work within the commercial sector, with mission agencies and with NGO's travelling all over Africa was each for a season as we built up our skill base and our resources to be able to better support ourselves in mission. We thought we had it all worked out and entering the mission field in our minds was still a few years away! God had other ideas! As Sam settled into his role with MAF he felt more and more as though this was the place to be. So then the conversations began about a possible further longer-term role with MAF after the interim finance role with MAF Uganda finished.
February 2012 - we travelled to the UK for interviews with MAF International in Ashford. Although in our minds we were exploring possibilities of becoming an international mission family to continue working in Uganda, it very quickly became evident that MAF had other ideas about location due to greater needs within other country programmes. So after intense interviews and some time enjoying the freezing weather in the UK, we receive the great news that we have been accepted and they would like Sam to be the Country Director in Chad! Yes you read it right, Chad! To be honest we didn't know anything about Chad or even where it was exactly, but on that snowy freezing cold day, our journey to the desert began!
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