Rarely is it good news when an employee reports that a company office is “In The Red” but on this occasion it’s very, very good news.

Today I was with our Senegal team at the community training farm harvesting our first crop of tomatoes. Our rural development manager, Luc, told me that the soil is so excellent that we have not needed to use any chemical fertilizers. These are as organic as you can get and they are good too (as tested in the meal pictured below).

In another shot you can see the team amongst young Papaya trees. We are continuing to develop the sectors of the project and get the site ready to begin formal training of pastors and church members in January.

The trainees will be from remote and very impoverished villages or pastors hoping to do new church plants. Once fully functional, this project site will provide for a community of 50 families and will include a dairy with 20 cows.

The Senegal team have named the project site “Kibbutz Bethlehem” as a tribute to the cooperation from the Israeli Embassy and as a symbol of our turning this once useless rocky land into a fertile garden.

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