Meet the Hospitality Team!

We are glad to introduce the Congolese Hospitality Team to you. We have known them all for over a month now, but finally got a photo of all five of them together this week.

From left to right:

Nónó is married and has three children. He is a deacon at his church and is currently studying to be a doctor. He is actually right in the middle of finishing his dissertation. José is also married and has had experience teaching Sunday school and working with children at a camp. Simplicé is engaged to be married but hasn’t set a wedding date yet and her father is an elder at one of the local churches. Bébé and Mandaba are a married couple. Mandaba works for Global Fingerprints, the orphan sponsorship program here, and knows English very well. He lived in the US for a year when he was a teenager while his dad went to seminary. They have 7 children at home which keeps Bébé plenty busy when she is not in English class.

We are so grateful to have this team of people to work with. Right now their top priority is to learn English and when our first short-term team comes from the States we will begin training them to host Americans. We are also praying that at least one of the Hospitality Team members will be gifted as a teacher and begin teaching English to the widows and orphans here at the Elikya Center. We are looking forward to seeing how this team and this aspect of ministry at the Elikya Center will look at the end of our two years here.