Information overload

Being in the States these three months (how has it been so long already??), we have received and had access to endless amounts of information about everything: 

• Billboard advertisements.
• Email reminders.
• Mailed sales alerts.
• Internet commercials on Youtube and almost every webpage (how do you make them silent?!). 
• More emails. 
• And internet news. 

We have known we can research anything online and find it. The problem is, sometimes we feel found by the information. 

There is no doubt that it can be overwhelming at times!

One thing lately that we haven't had to spend time much digging to find, is news about our beloved Congo. 

• Dark Days Over for DRC
• Kabila Congratulates Congo Army for Defeating M23 Rebels
• Congo's M23 Declares End to Rebellion
• Congolese Army and hardened UN Forces make gains against rebels
• M23 gangs are returning to Rwanda from Congo
• Banishing Congo's Ghosts
• Why is DRC “Negotiating” With M23, Not Rwanda and Uganda?
• DR Congo aborts peace deal with M23 rebels

Finding so many articles about Congo is easy, although finding the truth in the different perspectives and often sensationalized views, can be trickier. And as we read these titles of just a handful of articles (Congo is in the news, y'all! This is a good thing in a way...), nothing sounds new. We've heard it all before. Is this the real thing at last?

We hope so. But we don't know. And like our family and friends in Congo, we continue to pray for the country. We pray for the eastern region of Congo. We pray for the leaders and decision makers. We pray for the people who live with the consequences of war, or fought-over resources, or power-struggles.

Can't get fruit like this in Illinois

We pray. We hope and ask that you will continue to pray for the country in this time. Pray that God will do something incredible in the story of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We pray that one day you too will get to see this beautiful place that we are blessed by, because it is one of our homes.

God bless you.