Category Archives: Blogs
India and Bust
Monday, February 4th 2008
February 4, 2008 – 6:28 pm (GMT +5:30) – Chennai, India When I was still in College Nathan Greve went on one of the mission helper trips to India. I remember dreaming at that time that I snuck along with him, in his luggage. Coming over this time the plane flight was certainly more enjoyable,
On The Beach
Sunday, January 27th 2008
January 27, 2008 – 2:03pm (GMT) – Lome, Togo Lome, the capital city of Togo, is not as bad as Lagos, but then it isn’t as nice as Accra either somewhere in between. It’s dusty, but then this is harmaten time. This means the winds are blowing sand off the Sahara and dumping it all
Fresh Breezes
Tuesday, January 22nd 2008
January 22, 2008 – 2:43pm (GMT) – Accra, Ghana Ghana is a fresh breath. I really feel like I am back home in America here. I’m not sure what exactly it is. It could be a number of things, but probably a combination of them. It hit me almost as soon as I got off
A Joyful Noise
Friday, January 18th 2008
January 18, 2008 – 8:06pm (GMT +1) – Efa Village Well today I experienced my first African worship service. It was a good Lutheran liturgy. We followed through page 5 in the Lutheran Hymnal. We sang hymns from the Lutheran Hymnal. We confessed our sins. We listened to the scriptures readings and the creeds, we
Not The Best Pears
Thursday, January 17th 2008
January 17, 2008 – 6:48 am (GMT +1) – Efa Village Here in Africa, I’m sure its no surprise to anyone that they have a lot of different fruit that we do not have. But somebody really got turned around when they were naming these fruit. They have a fruit called an apple which is
And the Saints Came Marching In
Monday, January 14th 2008
January 14, 2008 – 10:50pm (GMT +1) – Efa Village, Akowa Ibom State Today we pretended to do work, or at least Koenig did, in reality there were people visiting constantly, one after another, to say hello. Mostly the pastors. Even pastor Edet from Port Harcourt, a good 2 ½ hour journey by car managed
Planes Trains and Automobiles
January 14, 2008 – 7:06am (GMT +1) – Efa Village, Akowa Ibom State That first night was surreal I was in the world of motion pictures, the old ones, black and white, the American cowboy gone east. Not James Bond, but his precursor if he had one. Sitting in the back of a taxi, we
Home Alone IV: Lagos
Saturday, January 12th 2008
January 12, 2008 – 6:00am (GMT +1) – Lagos, Nigeria My Father dropped me off at the Chicago Airport on January 10 around 6:00 pm CST. Now, I am half way around the world in the bedroom of what I was told was a five star hotel, in their most expensive room, because it was