During my time in Malawi I attended four different churches. Last week I shared about the first two churches I attended. The third Sunday started a bit earlier than the other two. That week rather than stay in Lilongwe, we went to a church in a rural part of the country. We also took along all the Bible School students to observe the church service. So 16 of us piled into the van and headed out. We didn’t get very…
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When I visited Malawi in January of 2020, I was only able to visit one church, the one on the school campus. This time I wanted to make it a priority to visit different churches so each of the four Sundays I was there, my friend Bern and I visited a different church. Let me say some things in general about churches in Malawi. First of all as a visitor, the churches always treated me very well. They gave me…
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It was a sunny Sunday afternoon in Lilongwe, Malawi when Bern asked me if I was interested in birds. His daughter had told him about a bird sanctuary nearby so he thought I might like to see it. Since I had taken him to some activities when he was in Washington, I think he felt a need to show me around Malawi. While I am not particularly into birds, I thought this might be a good opportunity to take some…
The first time I visited Lilongwe, Malawi was In January of 2020. I enjoyed my visit and had a great experience. This time when I visited Lilongwe, my experience wasn’t so great. It was not the people or the activities I had that made it less enjoyable. It was really aspects of the weather. In January I arrived during the rainy season, and it did rain. However, I am used to rain living in the Seattle area so it didn’t…
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Traveling to Africa from the Seattle area is never direct. I was going to Africa for the third time, and the journey would be long and tiring. The first time I went to Africa I connected through London. The second time I traveled through New York. This time I though I would try a different approach and headed to Doha in the Middle East. While Seattle is my home airport, I was traveling with a new-to-me airline, Qatar, so I…
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I am currently in Malawi, Africa finishing up my third and final week of teaching . While I managed to get out blog posts these past two weeks, I have come up short this week so I thought I would give my readers a sneak preview of what’s ahead in the weeks to come. The photo below comes with a story so stay tuned to see what this mother does to take care of her child. I’ll be back with…
My first impression of Egypt was smelling the sweet fragrance of flowers, jasmine I think. It was a soothing odor as we disembarked the plane. My second impression was of guns, big machine guns carried by men in military fatigues as we entered the terminal. I had never been in a situation where there were so many military men around guarding a location. It made me nervous. I felt like I was entering a war zone. Egypt was our first…
While most teachers take their students on field trips from time to time, imagine taking 16 high school students half way around the world to the third world country of Zambia. This was no ordinary field trip. It was a week long trip to help students experience a third world culture and learn how they could respond. In last week’s post I shared that one of our main tasks in Zambia was doing children’s programs. However, there were other types…
It was just a year ago that I traveled to Zambia but not for a vacation. The reason for this trip was different. Along with three other adults, I was accompanying a group of 16 high school students from my school on a trip designed to introduce them to ministry outside the US. In many ways it was a short trip but with a very loooong flight time. We left Seattle Saturday afternoon and flew overnight to London. We then…
I had only intended have three posts regarding Malawi. However, as I was looking over my photos again, I realized I had a number of photos I still wanted to share. So this post focuses on my immediate living circumstances in Malawi. The compound where I lived is probably about the size of a city block. There is a gate at the top off of a very bad dirt road. Fortunately it’s a short distance to the main road from…
