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OVERLAND MISSIONS TEAM:
Garrett Family Newsletter TANZANIA MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: AMT Graduation 11.19.2011

　

Its hard to believe that 12 weeks have come and gone since we arrived at Overland Missions in Livingstone, Zambia. Our family has survived almost 3 months of class work, expeditions, weather extremes, survival training, team building (and testing!), rounds of sick-ness, and community living. But mere surviving isn’t what any of us came here for. We left every natural thing we had and came with one goal: To be strengthened as a team and family in the assignment God has given us, and to add to the arsenal of tools and knowledge we will draw from as we build the Kingdom in the
most remote parts of Tanza-nia.

There is no doubt those things were accomplished and we will leave AMT an infinitely more solid team. Our faith in God — and each other — was strengthened like never before. It is often said that "the man with an argument is at the mercy of the man with an experi-ence." After having spent the past three months ex-periencing our physical, mental, spiritual, and emo-tional limits, we will leave with a resounding confirma-tion in our souls that Africa is where we are called — and standing with our ex-tended family as a ministry team is the most incredible privilege anyone could ask for in serving God.

We now set our sights on an upcoming tour of the U.S. promoting our vision and spending time with all of the incredible people who have been a part of us being here. We’re so blessed to have an extended team back home who covers us in prayer, supports our mis-sion, and reinforces the Body of Christ to us at every juncture. Its humbling to know God is using us to unite people from all around the world in the work of sal-vation to the nations!