Shoebill Stork

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Post Date: January, 2012
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Saturday January 21, 2012 Not as much going on today. We visited the other of Muzukuza’s two churches and then we went to the zoo. They were charging extra money for cameras and I didn’t think the zoo would be worth it so I didn’t bring my camera in. But it turned out to be a decent zoo. They had lions, tigers, crocodiles, Read More

Attendees West Africa Pastoral Conference 2012

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West Africa Pastoral Conference 2012

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When you see an aged woman running . . .

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. . . you know there is a big disaster. I can’t remember the ever seeing my grandmother run anyway. This is one of the Nigerian sayings that Pastor Bassey quoted as the introduction to his sermon this last week. I spent the last week near the city of Badagari in Nigeria. Here most of the pastors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo gathered together Read More

Straight Flight

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Saturday evening. I’m in Atlanta Georgia about to board my flight for Nigeria. Usually I fly through London which means a seven hour flight to London then another eight or nine hour flight down to Nigeria. This time, however, I am flying through Atlanta an hour and a half from Chicago to Atlanta and then a ten hour flight across the Atlantic. Read More

Map: Andaman Islands

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Post Date: December, 2011
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On the map below you will be able to find marked all the places I talk about in this entry. On Monday the 21st of November, Pastor Deepak and I flew to Port Blair in the Andaman Islands to visit our BELC pastors and congregations over there. The Andaman Islands reside Read More

Map: Train to Kakinada

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Post Date: November, 2011
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This is a map showing my train ride to Kakinada on Friday. I will be here for the next few days visiting churches. The map has some pictures posted on it towards the end of the train ride, showing the scenes out the train window. It might be difficult to see the pictures in the map below, so you can also click on the link beneath the map. click Read More

Maps Pictures: One Crazy Sunday and a Few More Days

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Post Date: November, 2011
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That is to say Sunday Oct 23rd through Thursday Oct 27th The map below shows you my Sunday wanderings. Rather than mark the map with the lines of my travel as normal I have marked the various spots with pictures. More pictures of these areas can be seen down below. The northern most mark on the map should be Guntur, Hotel Sindoori, where all my Read More

Map: Oct 22 – Panasapadu

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Pastor Sudhakar a year ago belonged to a another group of churches with Baptist ties. He audited the Bible School in Nidubrolu for a year, then just recently joined the CLCI and has started attending the Bible School. He has one small church and another small preaching station just outside his brother-in-laws house half a mile away, both are marked Read More

Map: October 21 – Preaching in Vejendla

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Post Date: November, 2011
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On this last visit to the US I picked up a gps unit, a fun new toy for me. This means I can now easily upload gpx files that display my recent travels. Anytime you see a post beginning “Map:” you can click on the title to see a display of where I have been traveling to recently. Which will probably also be accompanied by photos and a Read More