A heart for Africa

My friend has posted some e-mails and pics from a mutual friend who is now in Africa for 6 months. It was cool to read about people who I met when I was over there and I ache to go back again. I want to revisit the simple life and watch as people dance before God when they recieve something as little as a peanut butter sandwich. I want to see the soul of the children there just by looking into their eyes. Africa is a place where the inner most part of me wants to return to, and I know that I will some day, it's just hard not knowing when that may be. Peter and I have looked at the applications for both of us to go there this summer for 3 weeks but it would cost us over $6000. People say step out in faith and God will provide (I even say that) but what is the differance between having faith and knowing that reality says it just isn't possible. I stepped out in faith in 2004 and was able to raise $2500 on my own to go there, but $6000 seems just way over the top. We really don't know that many people. Oh my. Sigh.