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Elbe Griesel: I would like to thank each and every one of you for your prayers and support through this year!I appreciate it more than you know! I praise God for 2008 and for the things Iʼve learned and experienced. What a privilege!
I am back in South Africa at the moment and had a wonderful time with my family during the holidays. 2009 is an exciting year and I canʼt wait to see what God is going to do all over the world! I would like to share my plans for 2009 with you, but please know that my plans are all in Godʼs hands and will. I am planning to go back to India for a short term. Part of this journey will be to visit the global challenge teams with one of the project leaders as support to the team leaders. Our role will be to pray for them, listen to them, give advice and serve them in what ever the need might be. We are planning to start of with the first team going to India, spend a few weeks with them and then meet the other team in Russia for a few weeks and after that we will go back to India to spend more time at the orphanage and with the missionary there. We are also planning to go to the Himalayas with the missionary and 4 of the boys from the orphanage that is currently in Bible school there. There are many villages in the Himalayas that you are only able to reach by foot or donkey and we would like to backpack through there for a month to see if there are any Christians/churches and also to explore the need for an orphanage in this area. Iʼve prayed a lot about it and get more excited every time I pray about it. For the first 2 months of the year I will be involved with the training of the new GC teams and I will also be volunteering at a community project in Pretoria which I will tell you more about on a later stage.
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