We were walking to the next village and they prepared some of the warriors, some of the people,

to wait for us on the way, to kill us in the evening.

And they were waiting for us on the other side of the valley.

Before we got to the valley, we started seeing clouds coming together.

And it started raining.

We were wondering because it wasn't a rainy season.

By the time we got to the valley, there's so much water crossing, flash flood crossing,

and we couldn't.

And so we had to postpone and walk back. The following day, we got a news that if we would have managed to cross, that was our last day.

They had planned to kill us.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Great to be back for another fantastic

week of encouragement and hearing stories from across the globe. Basically, if you're new to us,

inspired is all about meeting different friends and connections

in mind from across the globe who are doing beautiful stuff.

And it's to counteract the relentlessly negative, pessimistic, cynical narrative that we get

bombarded with in the media that just induces fear and cynicism and depression and anxiety.

And we need to be stirred in our faith. And that's what

you're going to get. I've zero doubt you're going to get that this week because we have with us

the wonderful, the brave, the irrepressible Dr. Ila Tassie. Welcome, Eila. Thank you. Thank you.

So it's so good to have you. Oh, so back in 1997, I drove a truck with some friends from Wales

through about 15 countries. And it took a, it was a six-month expedition for me. I ended up in

Rwanda with my granny and aunt. And the truck, we ended up to a Kenyan, Ethiopian, from that people group called the Borana called

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