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YWAM's Africa Leadership Team is in Jinja, Uganda, for their annual meetings. A dozen leaders from around Africa have come together to give direction and eldership to the mission. Over the weekend the Executive Team of three met and was joined on Sunday evening by the wider group. We will be posting daily updates - as Internet access allows - in order to enable you to follow the highlights and decisions arising from these meetings. Remember to pray for our leaders!

I look around the room and see faces from all around the continent. In the eyes of these dozen men and women I see more faces, those of the hundreds of YWAMers whom they represent. The Africa Leadership Team members are not here for their own sakes but on behalf of the YWAM family from the four corners of Africa.

Those around the table represent YWAMers from North, Southern, East and West Africa. They bring with them their own perspectives from the four points of the compass. Together they celebrate what God is doing amongst us, as well as trusting God for strategies to make a continued and increasingly effective impact.

Flying into Entebbe in Uganda the team arrived to begin their annual meetings, making their way to Jinja, home to a large YWAM base and several ministries; for some it had taken 5 days to complete the journey. These annual meetings have been timed to coincide with the international HIV/AIDS conference being hosted by the Jinja base, a wonderful opportunity for the leaders to spend time with many staff from around the region.

The broad goal for the current meetings is to bring more definition to the roles and responsibilities of both the leadership team and the members of the team. The agenda will be full but the team began by simply catching up with one another, sharing personally about their journey through the last year with some stories from their locations. There is a keen desire to support one another in prayer, to share the challenges of leadership and to corporately find a way forward in the presence of God.

Kobus van Niekerk, Chairman of the ALT, reminded the team of a word received as YWAM met to pray on 03 May: that as leaders they should ask for wisdom and exercise humility, but not forgetting the importance of celebration. God is at work across the continent, changing people's lives and transforming communities. He has graciously used YWAM teams to accomplish His purposes in situations continent-wide. Yes, there are challenges ' but God is good and together with our leaders we praise Him for what He has already done in and through us!

Report compiled by Miranda Heathcote, AfriCom