Planning to plan to plan

I found myself making a new participatory tool.  (See these posts from 2012 and June this year on participatory methods).  We have been working with communities to help them develop Scripture Engagement plans for a couple of years now.  We have become quite good at helping communities to reflect on how they use their languages, and even feel pretty confident in helping them analyze the things that make it easy or difficult to use their language in ministry.  However, when it comes to the planning part, we feel that often it has been rushed. The approach has been rather foreign.

As I typed up the planning guide for our quick planning meeting (on Saturday) with a few community members to prepare for larger, two-day meetings (in October), I suddenly realized the file name had the word "plan" three times.  Sure enough, I was planning to plan to plan!

Please pray for all the stages of planning, that God would guide us as we work and pray together for the Gbari Scriptures to be used well.

Thank God for safe travel to Abuja today!  We were expecting serious delays, but didn't!  Also please pray for safe travel tomorrow (Saturday) for all those who are gathering (and for our return).  (And again in October when we get to the third "plan".)  Please pray that all the participants will be able to come on time so that we can wrap up the meetings without skipping any steps!