6/28/98: Today is Sunday, so Bill & Carol J., and family, took us to a Masai Church down in the Great Rift Valley. The overcast weather matched my gloomy attitude, but the…
Category: Living With Purpose
Living with purpose, including thoughts on work, community service, church ministry, travel and more.
Seeing Clearly Through A Chilling Fog
6/27/98: Lazed around and did not much of anything today. The hospital campus was decidedly slow in activity, I guess because it was the weekend, and we had no formal assignments yet….
Hurry Up And Wait
6/26/98: Ruth went off to the hospital, and I headed over to the office to see if there was any work to do… NOTE: The photo above is Ruth. Checking email. Some…
Sometimes Things Get Blurry And Off-Balance
6/25/98: Managed to find a ride up to Kijabe by connections over at the Mayfield Guesthouse, the one run by AIM here in Nairobi… NOTE: The blurry action photo above shows me…
Unexpected Connections
6/24/98: Last-minute errands, the pharmacy and some photos for Doug & Nancy E. Hard to leave after such a great experience… NOTE: The photo above shows a photo of Joe Kadenge, a…
More New Friends In Zimbabwe
6/20/98: Today was sports day for all of Dan & Julie’s boys. Wes and Will (twins) and Jason all play rugby on the Gateway Christian School team. Two of them wound up…
On Being A Life-Long Learner
Stretching my worldview is a practice I first learned when I was a student at Moody Bible Institute (MBI) back in the mid-80s, and then my graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity…
The Multi-cultural Tapestry Of The Global Christian Movement
6/17/98: TEAM staff member Sydney gave me a ride over to Harare Theological College (HTC) this morning. I took photos of the campus and students in classroom settings… 6/18/98: No work assignment…
Contextual Intersection
6/15/98: Ruth went off with Melita this morning for tea downtown. I was glad she finally got to spend some time with someone other than me! 24 hours a day, seven days…
Wrong Side Of The Road
6/14/98: Our train arrived in Harare exactly on time, and we managed to sleep better on this leg of travel. We found a taxi driver who agreed on a reasonable price and…
View Of The World
6/13/98: Arthur had to work, but Sylvia, determined to show us even more adventure, took us to the Matobo National Park… NOTE: The photo above is a detail of the cave paintings…
When Dining Is A Whiplash Experience
6/12/98: Ruth and I went to the National Museum and were quite impressed. Small, but excellent presentations. One display there was particularly interesting to me… NOTE: The photo above is the display…
Crazy People Jumping Off A Bridge
6/10/98: The bridge that straddles the gorge under Victoria Falls now serves two purposes. First it is a border crossing to Zambia. Second, it is a launching point for crazy people who…
Mosi-oa-Tunya: The Smoke That Thunders
6/9/98: A very full day that included a crocodile ranch, a troop of baboons, several grazing elephants and a walk along the upper Zambezi River that ended with a spectacular view…
Zebra In The Mist
6/8/98: Went on a guided safari walk at sunrise this morning, out in Balla Balla Field and Sibayao Pan just outside the main camp. The morning mist lent an ethereal look to…
We Began To Feel Self-Consciously Embarrassed
6/7/98: Up early for a nice breakfast. It is getting to feel rather extravagant to be so well taken care of! The H’s, W’s, and Q’s have brought an abundance of delicacies…
I Did Not Know Hyenas Eat Bones…
6/6/98: 75 days since we left home, and now we find ourselves treated to a safari by new friends and learning about big game in their native habitat from Ndebele and Shona…
Unfamiliar Experiences Breed Respect
6/5/98: Up at 4:30am to catch a flight to Bulawayo. Sylvia H. met us at the airport and brought us right home, introduced us to her husband Arthur, then we made haste…
A Couple Of Hours, And It’s A Bit Bumpy…
6/4/98: Packed up once again to begin a cross-country trip to Bulawayo. No one from the hospital was heading to town, so we caught a local bus into Harare. There were differing…
My Brief Career As An Aerial Photographer
6/3/98: Dan and I tried to climb a tree this morning, hoping to get a nice panoramic photograph of the whole compound from across the river… NOTE: The photo above…
Kind Of Blue
6/2/98: Both Ruth and I are finally experiencing our first real case of homesickness… NOTE: Photo above is a village home, or musha, that I photographed on one of our forays…
Shona Gospel Hymns
6/1/98: I led devotions in Chapel this morning… NOTE: The photo above is me giving the devotional message in Chapel at Karanda Mission Hospital. 6/1/23: I was a graduate of…
Fixing A Hole
5/31/98: Sunday Church Service combined with a Memorial Service out at one of the mushas. Great singing. NOTE: The main photo above shows nurses from Karanda Mission Hospital at the summit overlook…
A Difficult Work Worth Doing
5/30/98: More hospital analysis for Ruth and more photography for me. Today I took photos of the Awana Club children’s outreach program. Also finally reached Arthur and Sylvia H. in Bulawayo. Friends…
Building Trusting Relationships
5/29/98: Had a bumpy ride through the bush with the Home-Based Health Care team today… NOTE: The main photo above shows us arriving at a village with the Home-Based Health Care Team….