Tag: pastor
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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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It’s Tough to Not Starve in Gokwe South
13th August 2025 I managed to get some more sleep but that mean I had to rush a little bit more feeding things packed up. Derek and I decided to take all of our things with us to Chemba since we knew we’d need most of them anyway, although at the last minute I removed…
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Real Coffee and Mango Chilies for the Journey
12th August 2025 The alarms rang out at 3am but both of us were already awake. We had scheduled our breakfast pickup to be at 4:15 since we figured we would catch the shuttle at 4:30. But first, a cup of coffee. I made an executive decision that decaf wasn’t going to do us any…
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Do You Have Any Rooms?
11th August 2025 The initial plan was to get a room in the hotel within the international terminal of the airport. But since our flight from Johannesburg to Harare is on a different airline we could stay in that hotel (and yes we did ask if there was a way to check back in tonight…
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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…