This Is Gonna Be Cool! ✈️ 🇨🇮

Maybe you can relate to this: I love America, feel like I generally fit in the culture and, at least to a small degree, recognize the privilege that comes with being born here. That said, thinking about visiting a different country makes my eyes light up and my heart race a bit. Familiar?

In a couple weeks two really good buds and I will go to Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire if you want to be really accurate, French or you’re trying to impress a girl!). We’re going to meet a guy there from a Muslim background who loves Jesus and is pursuing a number of smart ways to enable his people to consider the claims of Christ. The four of us are wondering if some American churches might partner with him in God-honoring ways to see the kingdom grow. 

I share this with you because I think you might say, “Oooooh, fun!” But also because you might know some things or people I should know before I depart. And because I want to ask you to pray for us. 

If you’ve got advice, please let me hear it. 

If you’re inclined to pray, here are some ideas:

  1. I’m not the best guy to get any ducks in a row, but that’s my role with this trip. Please pray I wouldn’t miss important details like what pants to wear, how to make phones work in CI and plane tickets. 
  2. Pray for the relationships between the four of us. I love each of these guys and one I’ve not met IRL yet. But we do come from different places. We need the Holy Spirit’s help.
  3. Please pray for the families and churches we’ll leave behind and ask God to bring us back to them safe and sound. 

Thank you for being with me in this. I look forward to sharing fun stuff from this trip. 

PS: If giving is your gig and you’d like to cover some of the cost of this effort, you can contribute here. (Scroll down to “Bennett Vision Trip.”) Thank you.

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