A ministry assignment to West Africa brought Fr Peter Sanders of NCPM and Nestor Barboza of Argentina face to face with the hard secret of a ministry anointed of God’s Spirit. Here’s why.

It was 11:00 pm in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Physically and emotionally exhausted, bewildered and confused, Nestor—my ministry partner from Argentina—and I arrived to the hastily-arranged hotel. We had escaped the airport and taken the 25 minute drive with a driver and a prostitute. The hotel had Wi-Fi and I had my laptop! “Dr Adjobe,” I quickly wrote in an email, “Where are you? We expected you to greet us at the airport, and are traumatized.” It was one of the most harrowing experiences of my life: arriving at an airport of an African country in conflict and having no one to meet us.

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