Two days ago I walked outside onto our patio and bent down to put on my shoes. I was disgusted to find that our new dog  had chewed on one of the straps of my sandals. I could still…

A couple of weeks ago we threw a party…a housewarming party for gogo Eliya! Many of you first heard about her story on this blog almost exactly one year ago. If you missed it, please take a few moments to…

We lost one of our precious gogos  (grandmother) yesterday. As our community prepares for her funeral vigil; an all night service of prayers and songs to celebrate her life ending in the burial at sunrise; I can’t help but reflect…

Just wanted to make sure everyone who follows this blog has the opportunity to read Claire’s latest blog post. She has captured how I have been feeling these past several days. After coming through a wilderness of sorts, it is…

  We have builders for Go-go Eliya’s new house! To find reliable builders here, in Swaziland is not as easy as one might think. Too often they will take your money to purchase materials, perhaps even make a start on the…

    Two nights ago, a 5 year old little boy from our community was killed as he was walking on the side of the road after dark. He was in a group of kids that was wandering around after…

Today we delivered food to one of the widows in our community. There are four homesteads in and around Nsoko that our family has ‘adopted’…we’ve decided that if nothing else we do here makes a difference then we will make sure…

It has been a long time since I have blogged. Too long. There are a few reasons for this, I guess. For the entire month of July we have been super busy hosting visiting teams. It seems we barely have…