Tag: bible
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Sabbath in Chemba
16th August 2025 What can I say about a nice Sabbath morning when we wake up where we will have services. No need for a commute or to check the traffic before leaving for services. The only thing missing was Lena’s company. My hope is that she’ll be able to visit Chemba one day so…
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Full Day of Sabbath Preparations
15th August 2025 I had coffee this morning with a few of the children nearby. I asked them questions and they asked me questions. We took turns repeating words which we didn’t understand in different languages. It seems that among the women and children there is only one child who is fluent in English. Most…
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We Needed a Casual Day
14th August 2025 Derek hardly stirred all night even when I was awake tossing and turning while writing. I managed to fall back asleep for a while and so did Mabasa and Paul in the next room (we could hear them trying to quietly chat early in the morning when they had woken up). We…
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Climbing Out of the Forest and Into Adventure
7th August 2025 Just like many bygone summers throughout my life, I’ve had the chance to sleep on the ground among the trees. This summer Lena and I served at three camps sponsored by the United Church of God. The first was a teen camp in Central Ohio where we slept in staff cabins that…
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Lunch in the Oldest Pub?
21st July 2024 Before they dropped me off at the airport, the Elliotts gave me a few options for my last morning in the UK. Initially we had discussed going for a long hike (longer than our Sabbath walk) up the nearby hill where we should be able to see quite a nice view of…
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Convocation in London
20th July 2024 I woke up to a much cloudier and slightly cooler morning. It was still plenty warm outside and very humid as well. The Elliott family has a tradition of taking their two dogs on a morning walk each Sabbath before they leave for services. The area they live has some beautiful homes…
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Buckinghamshire Connections
19th July 2024 At around 5am local time, my plane touched down in London. I hadn’t really slept on the plane. I had plenty of legroom, but I was squeezed into my seat between two other men who were slightly smaller than me. It made me happy to be on the ground again, headed through…
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Conference … Completed
15th-18th July 2024 Almost as soon as the conference began, it was all over and we were all headed other places. Like much of this trip, I didn’t take too many photos partially because I figured someone else probably would (and many others did) but also because I was so often just busy absorbing everything.…
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Grand Plans
11th July 2024 The morning was nice and easy. There was time to read and think and pray and enjoy some quiet. There is “a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). While there are certain things that come around that we always hope to avoid, difficult days do come. This was not one…