Dear Friends, Yesterday morning, John Carey and I took a short flight from Nairobi, Kenya to Bujumbura, Burundi, a tiny East African country that most people have never heard of. Many have heard of Rwanda, however, which shares a border with Burundi, and which has suffered under decades of […]

Built to reach edible leaves in tall trees Dear Friends, This morning John Carey and I took some “comp time” and visited an African game park just outside of Nairobi, while Teryl Hebert and Danny Allen started the first day of their pastors’ conference. A few thoughts on our […]

Yvonne Nekesa, of Lynsi Love Center Orphanage Dear Friends, Not wanting to place my fellow missionaries under further condemnation, and purely out of love for them, I decided to enjoy a warm-water rather than a cold-water bucket bath this morning. It was wonderful. (If the truth be told, I […]

Dear Friends, Upon arrival at our guest house last night after a short ride from the Nairobi Airport, I completed my first assignment, which was the delivery of thirty-eight Sawyer water filters that I brought with me on behalf of Heaven’s Family International Director Chuck […]

Dear Friends, First, thanks for signing up to receive my blog entries during my African journey. My hope is to give you a better idea of what I experience on a typical international trip—of which I take at least six each year— and to give you some insight into […]