At about 5pm tonight Fina came in and I picked out the words “Wilson”, “chipatala” and “tikupita”… Wilson, hospital, we are going. It only took me a few seconds to realize that I was part of the “we” and that I would be driving. Fina is often weak and suffers from nausea and headaches (possibly [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Malaria
December 29, 2009Christmas Day
December 28, 2009Christmas Day in Malawi was beautiful.
We all woke up at the usual time, around 6am. The kids open their stockings (rain boots set by the door for Father Christmas) and were thrilled to hear that they didn’t have to wait until after church to open their presents… just until we had made coffee!
The tradition in [...]
2nd Quarter Newsletter
December 28, 2009Here is a link to our second quarterly newsletter.
The Queen of Fans
December 26, 2009We returned from holiday Monday with sad news that my Grandmother, Myra Oliver, had passed away on December 19. When I think of my grandma, I think of the word “dignity”. And the article below written by Bob Hartman does a great job of capturing this. Those of you who knew her from Culver will [...]
Luwawa Forest Lodge and the days following
December 23, 2009Any move is stressful, but all the strong and willing friends who showed up to help us made it so easy. And with our trimmed down lifestyle (and crazy type A personalities) we had everything unpacked and put away within 24 hours.
Then after preaching the following morning, we headed to Lilongwe on our way to [...]
