As we have noted, we have met a LOT of great people around the world.
On our recent trip to Kasane, in NE Bots, we met 3 missionary families. Our Missionary friends in Gabs had insisted that we contact Keith and Robin. They had access to this neat photography hide that we describe in another post.
They had JUST returned from a missionary conference, and were a bit hard to reach, in part because they had 3 families staying with them temporarily. Despite all this, Keith volunteered to pick us up, and we had a great time getting to know him.
When we were done with our outing to see animals, Keith insisted on dropping by his home, where we met the other missionaries and where Robin insisted we stay for a terrific curry dinner.
The above is a bi-vocational pastor from Jonesboro, AR, who always wanted to visit Africa. Beside him is a young missionary couple who recently moved to Malawi with their two very young children (oldest is 2.5 years). They are the only people from their mission group there.
We also met another missionary family from Swaziland. He teaches at a Christina Bible College there. How many folks do you know fromSwaziland?
This is Robin and her new son-in-law, Rob, a biologist studying elephants.
This is Keith, Rob and Keith and Robin's daughter Elise. She teaches first grade in Kasane.
One of the things we have learned in living here is that our calling is as domestic missionaries, not as foreign missionaries. BUT, we have an even greater appreciation for those who G^d has called to the foreign field.
G^d has made us all differently, and called us to different tasks. We don't have to understand His calling, we only have to obey. We can do a LOT worse than being in the place to which G^d has called us, be that Tuscaloosa, or Swaziland.
They had JUST returned from a missionary conference, and were a bit hard to reach, in part because they had 3 families staying with them temporarily. Despite all this, Keith volunteered to pick us up, and we had a great time getting to know him.
When we were done with our outing to see animals, Keith insisted on dropping by his home, where we met the other missionaries and where Robin insisted we stay for a terrific curry dinner.
We also met another missionary family from Swaziland. He teaches at a Christina Bible College there. How many folks do you know fromSwaziland?
One of the things we have learned in living here is that our calling is as domestic missionaries, not as foreign missionaries. BUT, we have an even greater appreciation for those who G^d has called to the foreign field.
G^d has made us all differently, and called us to different tasks. We don't have to understand His calling, we only have to obey. We can do a LOT worse than being in the place to which G^d has called us, be that Tuscaloosa, or Swaziland.
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