Martyns in Africa

• Off to Sudan for two weeks (photo)

  Posted: February 27, 2010, 1:36 pm by Taylor

  In the taxi headed to the airport. I will be working with Mike Congrove of e3 Partners, who is from our sending church, for the first week. We will be training pastors in Baliet, just outside of Malakal. It will be pretty bush. Then spending some time in Malakal with my SIM teammates. I look forward to showing you some photos of the trip.

• A Quick Lesson on Calling to Kenya or In Kenya

  Posted: February 24, 2010, 10:26 am by Taylor

  The way phone calling works here is that you use the country code 254 and
  ‘+’ before that, then the number. The actual number is 718xxxxxx. But
  sometimes you will see it written as 0718xxxxxx because that is how you dial
  the number locally. So if you see the zero on a number, drop it and add
  +254. Hope that makes sense. Sudan is +249. The number in Kenya always
  starts with a ‘7′ and in Sudan they always start with ‘9′. This is only true
  for mobile numbers. Land lines get more complicated. They are usually a
  number starting with ‘2′ in Kenya. They are a shorter number and instead of
  adding a ‘0′ in front, you add ‘020′. I’m not sure how you dial it
  internationally, but I assume that instead of 020 you do +254.

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• Long Overdue Update

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 9:20 pm by Taylor

  The whole fam had the chance to take a real vacation in Thailand a few weeks
  ago and visit with some very good friends we had not seen for quite a long
  time. They got to meet Avery for the first time and we spent some good
  quality time together.

  Next week Taylor heads into Sudan to do some work for our sending church,
  Fellowship Bible Church in Dallas. Following that short trip into the bush,
  he will spend a few extra days in Malakal, our old home in Sudan, spending
  time with our fellow SIM teammates there.

  We officially became a part of the SIM Kenya team on Monday as Taylor takes
  on his new role as the Regional Communications Coordinator. We are still
  formulating how this new role will look and we look forward to it’s full
  implementation.

  Avery is growing up fast. She is starting to build her own phrases and
  occasionally really catches us off guard. She likes to think everything is
  hers. We wished she slept better at night, but other than that, all is well.

  We have had some small bits of support drop off recently, but God has held
  our finances fairly steady and taken care of us. We hope to move out of our
  flat in July and onto SIM’s compound. This will help save us some funding,
  move us closer into the SIM community, and provide a green space and other
  kids for Avery to play with.

  We thank you all for your prayers and support in our journey to seek God’s
  will & to worship Him in all that we do.

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• Laying our hands on Sudan. Praying for the Sudanese. (photo)

  Posted: February 22, 2010, 12:40 pm by Taylor

• Brent: Our Guest Bassist at SLC 2010 (photo)

  Posted: February 5, 2010, 11:26 pm by Taylor

• Designing Prayer Card for Fellow Missionary (Photo)

  Posted: February 1, 2010, 10:02 pm by Taylor

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