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Beth and Gary Evans serve the Central Africa Medical Mission (CAMM) in Malawi in the capacity of Head Nurse and Manager of Operations. This is not the first time they have lived overseas. In fact, they first met 33 years ago in Malawi, when Beth was serving as one of CAMM’s mobile clinic nurses and Gary was working as a civil engineer building water supplies with the Voluntary Service Overseas (the UK’s version of the Peace Corps). For both of them, the second time around is sweeter. Continue reading “Sweeter the Second Time”

When I arrived in Malawi ten months ago, I didn’t know what I was looking at.

I saw men riding bicycles with short sticks of wood piled up on the back bumper. How did they stack them that high, and what was keeping the load from crashing down on their heads? How did they keep their balance, and what can you build with sticks? But these guys weren’t trying out for the circus – this is a matter of daily survival. These guys sell firewood for cooking in order to feed their families. Continue reading “What am I seeing?”

On September 24, 1977, my wife Beth and I, married only two months, stepped off a plane in Lusaka, Zambia for the first time. I was four months out of the seminary and was about to begin my ministry by serving as a missionary with the Lutheran Church of Central Africa (LCCA). It was a difficult time for the 13-year-old country. Store shelves were all but empty as the import routes were cut off by the violent war of independence taking place on our south in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). But the welcome of the mission staff and especially the warm and cheerful Christians of Zambia helped us quickly make Zambia our first home. Continue reading “African Homecoming”