Sunday, September 12. We’ve been in Uganda for more than two months — and it looks like I need to practice doing these blog entries a little more frequently. My only excuse is that we’ve been busy. Around the beginning of August, the government eased the lockdown, allowing people to travel more and many businesses …
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Uganda 2021
Well, here we are. Four weeks in Uganda and I guess it’s time for an update for you, our friends and mission partners. How this started This all started two and a half years ago when Michelle responded to what she thought was a job opening in Africa — it wasn’t. Rather, it was a …
Africa Week 4
Monday, July 8. First, apologies. We’ve been so busy doing things that I haven’t taken very many photos. I’m just a lousy photojournalist. Great start to the week. Michelle has a cold and feels miserable. Hot baths, ginger, and sleep have not cured it, so she’s staying in bed today — although she will try …
Week 3
Monday, July 1. Nathan returned to Houston from two weeks in the mountains of New Mexico at Philmont Scout Ranch. He leaves tomorrow to join us in Kenya. David P’s daughter admires him for traveling alone at 16. We have visions of him winding up in Moscow instead of Nairobi. Michelle wrote him a two-page …
Week 2
So what has happened to them, you’re wondering? Sorry it’s taken so long to update the blog. Excuses: intermittent wifi at the Rafiki Village, they actually expect us to work, “missionary midnight” is either 8 or 9 p.m. depending on who you ask, most nights we don’t get back to the cottage until 8 p.m., …
Our First Week in Africa
Sunday, June 16. Houston. Packed at last, the day started at 3:30 a.m. driving Nathan to Hobby Airport to join members of his Scout Troop for a flight to Denver, drive to Philmont Scout Ranch and ten days trekking in the back country of New Mexico. We decided to stay up when we got home, …
Welcome
Michelle and I are off later today for a month in Africa. I’m planning to use this blog to post about our experiences. Stay tuned.
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