Prayer Request - 5/17 - 9:18am

Monica Jones sent this email about Mackenna's mission team in Africa:   "Just wanted to give you a brief update on an event that happened last night at the Chimala mission in Tanzania where 10 students and I are doing a mission project for three weeks. There was a fire in the dormitory of the secondary school on the mission. All the Tanzanian students got out safely and no one was hurt, but half the dormitory burned down leaving only the walls. Myself and all the students went down to the dormitory and by the time we got there it was a raging fire. The students did great! Some helped to organize the younger children and keep them calm while others joined the bucket brigade which helped put out the fire after two to three hours of work. There is no fire department where we are, so there were literally hundreds of Tanzanians helping to put out the fire using buckets filled with water from a nearby stream. All the OC students were very safe and I am extremely proud of how they responded and served alongside the Tanzanians. It was a chaotic and somewhat traumatic scene, so I ask that you keep the Tanzanian students, teachers and administrators of the school, and missionaries here in your prayers. Also, pray for our OC students. Everyone is okay but it is a lot to process and they are very tired from a long night of hard work.
Again, all the OC students a doing well. They even went to a village this morning to do a VBS, but prayers would be appreciated."