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Tuesday Pastoral Conference
Thursday, January 26th 2012
Tuesday January 24, 2012 Monday morning we went through a large part of the Statement of Faith and Purpose. Todd was gone most of the morning trying to exchange money so that we could pay for our hotel. We started class around 10:30am and needed to leave around 1pm. Obviously we didn’t get a chance
The Singing Bus
Sunday January 22, 2012 Sunday and Monday were set aside to visit with Yumba of the CCLC. He wanted us to visit with some churches he has started working with right across the Zambian border. We have to be back to Lubumbashi Monday night so that we can have the combined pastoral conference ( CCLC
Shoebill Stork
Saturday January 21, 2012 Not as much going on today. We visited the other of Muzukuza’s two churches and then we went to the zoo. They were charging extra money for cameras and I didn’t think the zoo would be worth it so I didn’t bring my camera in. But it turned out to be
Muzukuza and the ELCC
Friday January 20, 2012 Busy day. I was unable to get my Zambia visa in the US, I just didn’t have time to get all of the ones I needed. So that was one of my first concerns on arriving in Congo. Thursday night we went to the Zambia embassy were I got the
Arrival in DRC
Thursday January 19, 2012 Arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo. The airport in Lubumbashi is undoubtedly the worst I have ever been in. Todd told me stories of him and Nathanael getting stuck here when they came through, but we didn’t have any real difficulties. There was one small door from the immigration office into
Cool Ethiopia
Wednesday January 18, 2012 Flew from Nigeria to Ethiopia. I was here only for an overnight layover and to meet up with Todd. My flight landed around 8am but I didn’t get to the hotel until after nine, and I needed to leave for the airport again the next morning around 6:30am so I didn’t
When you see an aged woman running . . .
Tuesday, January 17th 2012
. . . you know there is a big disaster. I can’t remember the ever seeing my grandmother run anyway. This is one of the Nigerian sayings that Pastor Bassey quoted as the introduction to his sermon this last week. I spent the last week near the city of Badagari in Nigeria. Here most of
Straight Flight
Sunday, January 8th 2012
Saturday evening. I’m in Atlanta Georgia about to board my flight for Nigeria. Usually I fly through London which means a seven hour flight to London then another eight or nine hour flight down to Nigeria. This time, however, I am flying through Atlanta an hour and a half from Chicago to Atlanta and then
Map: Andaman Islands
Wednesday, November 30th 2011
On the map below you will be able to find marked all the places I talk about in this entry. On Monday the 21st of November, Pastor Deepak and I flew to Port Blair in the Andaman Islands to visit our BELC pastors and congregations over there. The Andaman Islands reside almost all the way
Map Pictures: Ongole Visit
Wednesday, November 9th 2011
The final CLCI district we visited last week was the Ongole area which is down near the southern part on Andhra Pradesh. This coming week I will be in Nellore which is part of the BELC but is again near the same area just a little farther south. Nov 1 – Mallavaram – Pastor Simon