Africa 2009 - Part 1

This has to be in 2 parts, as the Vista seems to be non-compatable with many things including "blogger", it has taken hours of doing and re-doing to get this far, so I shall start a new blog for the last pictures.

The beauty of the Okanagan on a Cold January Morning.



Mai left Seattle about noon and we at midnight January 13, 2009

Waiting in Washington/Dulles airport from midnight to 6 am there were no seats until after check-in, that register was blowing cold air. This was about 30 hrs before the inaugeration.

One hour stop in Rome for new passengers to board.

Somewhere over Northern Africa.

Mount Kilimanjiro peeking out of the clouds.

These piles of tumbled up rocks are called Kopje's it is amazing how the people build among those rocks that look like they are going to fall any second.

One of the other wayfarers along the road from Mwanza to Musoma Tanzania.

The tent over the platform at Tanzania Evangelism Site.

The tarps giving the congreation some shade.

The Choir.

Pathfinders, Marching Demonstration.

The meetings were held in a feild about 1 block from his church, and those baptized will attend this church.

Partly plastered.

Floor almost complete, this church was started in 2005.

Building benches.

Ten benches completed.



Look at all the Children!!!

All wantinjg to shake hands with the Mazungu (Swahili for "white person")

These little girls cared for their baby siblings every evening, that is just the way it is, they don't need store bought dolls to play with, they have real live crying laughing and wetting dolls to play with.

Aren't they cute???!!

Look at them all!!

Twins.

I just learned how you carry 2 babies at one time!!!

Baptism

Husband and wife.

Twin sisters baptized.

The ones baptized from the meetings.

Those baptized into the big church, all under the same Pastor.

This girl caused a disturbance at the meetins several nights, as she was demon possesed, but this is the day of her baptisim.

These are the ladies that cooked for us.

At workin an outside kiktchen.

This is the house where they cooked.

A picture of one of the meals.

We ate at the home of this couple (I am holding their little granddaughter)

This is Phillgona who brought the food and served it to us.

Phillgona's house.

The courtyard, different family members live in small sections of this building and all cook in the courtyard.

The guard by our hotel I was trying to get a picture of the street, but he thought I wanted on of him, so I took this and then continued with the stree pictures.

The storm sewer in front of our hotel, and throughout the town.

Lake Victoria "Car Wash"

Tanzania Mailbox.


The Serengeti!!

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A Catus Tree.

The beauty of Africa.

The road was just to rough for the tire.

On to the Next Experience

Waiting for the bus that would take us from Tanzania to Uganda.

There it is, 2 & 1/2 hours late.

All night over a bumpy road, arriving 17 hrs later.

See Beth sitting just above the door.

Morning sights.

Our Hotel

Four hours by car over more bumpy roads brought us to Imbale, East Uganda, and this hotel, which is owned by an Adventist couple.

This is one method of tramsportation, caled budda budda (meaning from boarder to boarder)

Sunday market next to the hotel.

Housing area after the market.

Working on the churches in Uganda.

The exterior when we left but there were also some metal window frames installed.

The last picture of the interior, but the floor has been poured and turned out very nice.




The bigger church started in 2005 by Hector's brother Wailu. Ikiki (where our little Daniel's grandfather attends)

Vinko's Church, started in 2008, here you can see the window frames, this way even without glass, they can lock it up for security.

Evangelism at the Mall

this was the end of the evangelism, and all the Sabbath services were held here, morning, lunch, and afternoon.

The ride to the Baptizim

Fred our friend from the hotel being baptized.

Sabbath lunch special for the President of the Mission and the Mazungu's!!!

The "Straight and narrow road" between 2 buildings.

A school of about 900 students is acrosws the road from the "Kelowna" Church building that is under construction.

Giving School Notebooks to students across the road from the church, (our little Danny in the foreground with Hector's hat on) After this we took Danny to his home village to see his mother and siblings, as it had been 10 days since we had taken him from his village and then on to the hospital in Kampala. I am not including Danny's pictures and story here becasuse it is the most precious story we will be bringing home with us, and we want to share that one with you in person. For those of you who don't live in Kelowna, we send a couple pictures by e-mail, and later we will put all of Danny's pictures on the blog.

Thanks Giving 2008

In North America,
we are so thankful that back in the 1600's
the European people had the courage
to board a boat destined for a land
that was only a dream.
Because of their courage
to face the unknown,
and to leave their families behind
(possibly for ever!!)
we live in this bountiful land
of peace and freedom.

In Canada,
we celebrate Thanks Giving
the 2nd Monday of October.
It is just at the end of the harvest,
and we truly are thankful.
But in the Okanagan,
our summer lasts a little longer
then it does in the rest of the country,
so that means that our harvest usually is still waiting
for that long weekend
for us to get out there
and bring in the Grapes.

Therefore, our holiday weekend
usually isn't much of a holiday,
more like a work marathon!!

So once again, work was on the agenda.

Royce arrived on Saturday evening,
and on Sunday morning,
he went out Sunday morning
and picked about 200 pounds of grapes.
When he brought the first ones,
I started preparing them,
and setting up the kitchen into a
manufacturing center!!

Sunday we got about 20 liters
from about 60 pounds of grapes.
After supper on Sunday all 4 of us
(including our niece Marsha)
stemmed the last 4 boxes,
and had them in basins
ready for starting in the morning.

The picture below is part of them.





Here Royce and I are working,
pouring hot already partially cooked grapes
into the steam pot.

Royce was a great help,
he did the heavy work,
and took care of putting the juice
from the pot into the jars
via the spout that this special pot has.


With the big pot on the stove,
and smaller pots pre-cooking the grapes
to speed up the time
they needed to spend in the steam pot,
and clean jars keeping warm in the oven,
it was a challenge to get our
Thanks Giving Dinner prepared.

I did the yams in the slow cooker,
and took the pie next door
and my aunt baked that for us.
I rushed all the grapes through the pre-cooking stage,
so that I could finally use the burners to fry the gluten,
and cook the brussel sprouts.
With all that was happening I managed to
"over" toast the pine nuts for the salad,
and had to scrap the first batch and start over.

The pictures below are special for Mai-Rhea,
she loves to take pictures
of tables and plates of food just for the record!!
Enjoy it Mai.