Think it's hot here? Imagine what it's like in the Sahara!

(From a future Cafe 1040 staff member)

August 5, 2011
It's hot.  Temperatures will peak at 101 in [metro Atlanta] for the next few days.  I had dinner with a friend last night who said Dallas was experiencing their 24th day in a row of 100+ heat indexes.

In contrast, the students in our North Africa Program just got back from one of their excursions--a week in the Sahara.  My friend who is one of our Overseas Mentors said temperatures topped 135.  Preheat to 350 and open the oven.  That's the Sahara all day.

Cafe 1040 is a training program for some of the most difficult conditions in which to live and do missions in the world.  Enduring a week in the Sahara informs our students of their own ability to live and function in the harshest of environments.

Their guides are from a people group with a population of over 200,000.

There are zero known Christians in their population.

And there is no church or Christian organization in full-time mission to this people group.