I am sitting in the bustling city of Beira, Mozambique. We have been staying at a boys orphanage, run by Arco Iris ministries. Read the book by Heidi and Rolland Baker, called “Always Enough” to know more about this, it will really challenge your faith. It seems very common to the Bakers and their ministry to see food multiplied, sick healed, dead raised, for kid (who probably never even got a cross and crown) to have amazing visions of Jesus, heaven and angels. Good book.
This is my first real internet access since Buenos Aires. In Johannesburg the internet cost 10 dollars american per hour, so I just posted blogs. Right now, time is limitted as our whole team is sharing, I have 20 minutes left, which is good because I have to pee. The other major issues getting in the way of answering the 176 emails I just read is the slow computer and my attention span. So for everyone who emailed, thank you, especially for the memories, the encouragement, the laughs. I am also having trouble typing, because I worked out yesterday using concrete blocks and my forearms feel swollen, even if they dont exactly look like Popeye’s.
Ok, ADD blogging.
Africa is amazing. Bernie and Becky- if Malawi is anything like Mozambique, you will love it. I doubt we will be able to see each other though. Currently in Beira, typing, and staying in Dondo. Tomorrow we leave for actual disaster relief, 7 hours north. We will travel in the back of a flat bed trailer. We will be in Moz. for 3 weeks, then Swaziland, then Botswana!
I also have a number of blogs mushing together in my head…. TIA- This Is Africa!
Our South Africa experience, with the race starting in Pretoria and then a 2 hour train ride to Jberg. In the zoo, looking for the “big 5”- lion, elephant, rhino, water buffalo, leopard, then headed to a restaurant for meat, and a quick tour of the museum, then to the top of a 50 story building for the finish line.
The race was a tough one for me, as I had to pee, and my team left Linnea and I behind. I can now truly identify with Rodney Dangerfield. The races seem to bring out the worst team dynamics for us.
Linnea and I spent the day in London, riding the buses and doing a quick tour. Way cooler than I expected, spent the day with Jake and Lynnette- the oldies.
