Discouraging Moments in Ministry

Our trip out to Boulwando fell on a Sunday. We planned this ahead of time, and had Douninoma prepare a message for the adults. I prepared a lesson for someone to read to the children as Benoi would have been translating into Moore for Douninoma.
However, when we returned, Douninoma came to our house on Monday looking extremely somber. He told Mike, despite his efforts to prepare the message and his normal weekly visits, there were only three adults in attendance – himself, Benoi, and Marceline, who we had asked to teach the children. And there were only 37 children in attendance. He was absolutely discouraged, as were we to learn this news. But we do recognize this as a growing pain for a new ministry and continue to pray for those in our ministry and those who are helping us serve.