Our group of 8 met at Resurrection West mission center this morning at 3:30am to start our journey to Honduras. Not many of us had slept much, anticipating our trip and wondering if we had packed all we would need: the right shoes and the right clothing, wondering what God has in store for us […]
This fantastic day started with a drum circle! We each learned to play and feel the rhythms. This afternoon we walked through the Marianne Ridge township, had supper and worshiped with the congregation. Out last evening with this amazing group is a sad one, particularly for the youth. They’ve shared experiences, shared faith, and made […]
Today our team joined together with Catholic and Muslim teams to serve the homeless at a cathedral in Durban. The cathedral is a place that serves the homeless with meals, a medical clinic, counseling, and showers. Our group helped prepare the meal, serve, and wash dishes. Praises to our youth for serving. I’m sure they […]
We visited three places today: 1. Ukukhanya Kwe Afrika Primary School and learned about their reading program. 2. Nyusa Project (Nyusa is Zulu for “Uplift”) – met some of the students and heard about the transformations taking place in their lives through education. 3. Samungu, a church built in partnership with Resurrection. Continue to hold […]
Today is the day! We will be traveling over 40 hours to get back home. Before we headed to the airport, we took one last stroll around the market where we got rid of the last of our Kwacha. By this time, we had gotten very good at bartering and were able to get what […]
Barb is only able to send us text updates so I apologize for the short update: Youth are wonderful! Today we visited the Hillcrest AIDS Center*. We participated in an information session, toured the greenhouse, upscale art center, food scheme, and sewing group. We then had lunch in an informal settlement (township) with the "grannies". […]
We heard the elephants in the middle of the night! The staff has been telling us that elephants sometimes walk through the camp at night and we were beginning to think they might be messing with us. The noise we heard was unmistakably the trumpeting of elephants (although Kip can make a very similar sound […]
While Day 1 was all about flights, arrival, customs, and driving, all went really well. Then we were off for a Fantastic Day 2. We enjoyed some time at the beach and had a chance to put our feet in the Indian Ocean before returning to camp to meet the youth from surrounding communities. The […]
After coffee and breakfast the team once again headed out at 6am for our morning game drive. The air was more brisk than the previous morning and most of us were huddled under blankets in the truck. We got to see many of the same animals, this time making sure we got selfies with our […]
Today's 5am wake-up call was rough. We all slugged our way up to breakfast where we caffeinated up for the first 4 hour game drive. We left in two large land rovers - Kristen, Shandi, Eric, Dorothy & Harriet in one; Chifundo, Hugo, Mary-Beth, Kip & Rob in the other. Our drivers, Martin and Billy, […]
The last day of clinic, the team saw 80 patients. This means they treated almost 800 people and filled about 2200 prescriptions while they were there! As Dr. Rob was treating a patient, a chicken walked into the room and started to lay an egg. They cluck a lot while they are doing that! Later […]
The team woke up at 6:30am this morning to pack our suitcases and get ready for the 7 hour drive to Thornicroft in Zambia. Lucita came by early to show us her appreciation and how she had recovered! After saying our goodbyes and blessings we loaded up the van and trailer, and the eight team […]
