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\"Melanie<\/p>\n

So, how do you train someone to be a missionary?\u00a0 Do you send them away to a foreign country?\u00a0 Do they read and study?\u00a0 How do you get ready to leave your home to make a new home, find a new normal?\u00a0 It isn’t an easy task to be faced.\u00a0 But we’ve been facing it this past week and will be facing the challenge of preparing to leave for another week.<\/p>\n

Did we go to a foreign country???\u00a0 Nope, we came to Chicago … foreign to us, yet still familiar.\u00a0 It’s a wonderful place!\u00a0 The weather changes almost minute by minute!\u00a0 And … our time of training has been amazing!<\/p>\n

We (Alex and Melanie) have been in Chicago with\u00a0ten other individuals preparing to leave and move to Mozambique.\u00a0 We’ve spent time preparing, reading through books, taking tests, and praying.\u00a0 We are now spending time discussing the important elements of what we need to know before we go.\u00a0 This includes everything from learning how to raise our support to how to work through complex missiological issues.\u00a0 We have had amazing speakers and we are so grateful to all of them!<\/p>\n

The amazing thing is that we are just beginning our journey of understanding.\u00a0 I suppose you could call it our “amuse bouche”, our pre-appetizer!\u00a0 This is just a taste of things to come.\u00a0 We will spend our lives learning language, culture, and so much more.\u00a0 And … it’s going to be a LOT of FUN!<\/p>\n

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If you want to be a part of what God is doing in Mozambique financially just click on the link below!<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO DONATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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