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Book-Ended in Worship - Colombia July 2012

The Beginning - Worship My wife, Kim, and I had the privilege and blessing of leading a short-term missions team to Colombia last month with Revealing Hope Ministries . This trip was our second missions trip overall but our first with Revealing Hope and our first to Colombia. (I should mention that this is the second year I have served on the Revealing Hope Board of Directors ). This is my attempt to evaluate the experience, to reflect on the trip, what I saw and what God is teaching me. Two of our team members – my wife, Kim, ( Colombia Mission Trip 2012 ) and Scott Lewis ( Puerto Caldas, Mansome & Ecclesiastes ), a long-time accountability partner – have already written about the trip. I will do my best not to repeat what they have written and to make this personal. Preparation Our go team of six met three times in preparation for this trip. We worked through materials that Pete Stanke, the Executive Director of Revealing Hope, put together. We prayed together. We talked abo