Well I reckon this is it. Right now, it’s 5:30AM. I’m in the sitting room warming up next to a blazing fire with my cup of Mzuzu coffee. The jeans I hope to wear to Nashville are laid out in front of the fire drying. In the distance I can hear the morning rooster roll [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Malawi’
Ndapita
Posted in culture, family, Mission, tagged family, Friends, God, Goodbye, Malawi, Tears on July 12, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Anything with Nothing
Posted in Mission, tagged God, Life, Malawi, Mother Teresa on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.” –Mother Teresa
417 miles
Posted in Mission, Pictures, tagged Beauty, Blessings, Life, Malawi, Marathon, Running on May 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The International Peace Marathon is less than a week away. This is my third marathon and I am better prepared than in the past. And in much better shape too. As I stand at the start line in Kigali later this week I should feel some confidence. At least as long as I don’t think [...]
What is in your hand?
Posted in Mission, MUMC, Pictures, tagged Church, God, Malawi, Malawi UMC, Miracles, United Methodist Church on March 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As we traveled, taught, preached and encouraged this week I found myself coming back to God’s question of Moses, “What is that in your hand?” (Exodus 4:2) It is a question that was first brought to my attention by Trevor Hudson from South Africa and it’s a powerful question to ask the churches in Malawi. [...]
Ch-English
Posted in culture, family, tagged chichewa, culture, english, family, Language, Malawi on February 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When Ciona visited last fall we were standing in the kitchen chatting and she said, “Kara, you don’t have to use your Chichewa English with me.” I laughed. We have, indeed, changed our English into different rhythms, different inflection, and incorporated Malawian colloquialisms in order to be better understood. We tend to leave off prepositions… [...]
