Author Archives: Jo

Update November 2003

Mo has written about the large scale, and now I’ll share a bit about the straggling sheep that come to our door each day. Our kids are really learning what it means to ‘need’. Everyday real people come to our door with real needs. Joseph is a crippled man who came when his Iris food

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update october 2003 – jo

I began a Bible study for the ladies from the church last Thursday. Ruth, a woman who lives nearby, is teaching me Chichewa and translates for me. I shouldn’t have been surprised that we started two hours later than we had said. We bought mats to put on the floor so there would be enough

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october 2003

The sunset is always beautiful in Bangula, of that we can be certain. The sun begins as a fiery red ball at about 5 p.m. and then quickly sinks, leaving the sky a beautiful pink in it’s wake. ‘Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens. Your faithfulness stretches to the sky.’ Does it stretch

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