We drove about two hours outside of Kigali toward the Congo. What my eyes saw on the way was like opening a social studies book in third grade. I saw everything in the villages and streets that I have always imagined about Africa. People were dressed in the typical colors of Africa; from the clothes…

Today was my last session with the pastors here in Kigali. It was a very good morning. I gave them notes on both the introduction and conclusion to the sermon in the first two hours. Then in the final hour and a half, I introduced the book of James and did the opening message on…

Third World living is just that, like an “other world.” I had my first shower Wednesday night. I asked to take a shower and one of the workers on the compound brought me two containers of water – one boiling, one cold. I mixed the water in a wash pan in the bath tub and…

It is Thursday night (August 9), and I am wrapping up my first, and very long, day. I slept fitfully through my first jet-lagged night, waking up and going back to sleep three separate times. My bed is surrounded by mosquito netting. There were many new and unfamiliar sounds in the night: the Moslem temple…