The place was the Sudanese Refugee Camp in Kakuma, Kenya. The occasion was the arrival of special guests to the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Nuer people in the camp. The temperature was 100.4 degrees. The visitors had just traveled over 4 hours by taxi on a very bumpy and dusty potholed road. When they arrived in the camp, the choirs burst into song. Continue reading “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news”
Body Building
I am exhausted. In five weeks, I covered 20,000 miles and made 62 presentations about our Africa missions to churches, schools and individual donors. I am also energized by what I have seen on this speaking tour. I have an even greater appreciation for the diversity within Christ’s Body.
Letters from Home
WHEW! We had just gotten here to sub-Sahara Africa (see blue circle on world map below) after being “on the road” for 28 hours (of course, using a car, a bus, and planes). We had just succeeded in spending 5 weeks in North America to explain the work that our church body and the local African Lutheran churches are doing.