We left Colorado Springs in March last year… this year long journey has brought a lot of emotion - a lot of tears, loneliness, excitement, fear, overwhelming joy, thankfulness, wondering, disgust, hate, deeper love then we have ever known, humility, revelation…

The day-to-day in your face poverty, rape, tragedy - facing the reality that many people place NO value on life - alone, afraid some, watching my children, my wife in despair at times, missing their family, wondering what all their friends are doing back home. There were times over this past year when there was no vehicle to drive, when money was so short we were not sure how we would get around, when that thought of going to serve again, in the hot sun, when nobody seemed to care was too much - times we asked God if we missed it some how by coming…

I began to list in a letter today all that God has done, despite us, over the past year; A radio show that reaches 2.4 million each week, "I AM" boxes that give the underprivileged kids here value, the "Children's Village", the first G42 African church plant with Pastor Gift, a fully staffed medical clinic, hundreds of acres of land donated for orphans, preaching and ministering to thousands all over South Africa and Swazi, training hundreds of young missionaries almost every month, a work that we get to carry on through all the generations of "Blacks" to come!

But, the most amazing part of this past year is the relationships - how can you place a price? I could list hundreds of people here that have touched our lives in so many ways… He promised Lisa and me that He would raise up local African families to carry what ever we started - He has. They will do it bigger and better then we could have ever dreamed!

And then I look at my family. They have seen through the eyes of poverty, destruction, hopelessness, rage,joy, life that they never knew or could have known existed.

You couldn't pay me enough or place a price on what we have seen; touched and walked… not one of us would trade this past year for the world… thank you for being such an important part of building a new legacy… forever broken, forever African!