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Quick update from Kitwe

I’m sitting on the veranda of the house I’m staying in at the moment. We’ve been here for just under two weeks. As I look over the countryside I see absolutely stunning rolling green hills covered with banana and pineapple plantations, dotted with houses and punctuated by the very occasional dirt road. [...]

May 15th, 2007 | Category: media village, outreach | One comment

prime time

Wow. We’ve just spent a weekend in Kampala, the Ugandan capital.  It was strangely awesome.
On Friday we said our farewells to the guys in Jinja.  It was a wonderful fortnight there with friendships made quickly and too many experiences to recount.  We learnt how to greet and how to wash clothes by hand, how to [...]

April 23rd, 2007 | Category: outreach | One comment

Princess

My very good friend, Princess G, has just started keeping a blog. She didn’t tell me about it - which is fair enough as I completely forgot to wish her a happy birthday at the end of last month. Until now. So…. Happy belated birthday Princess.
On a different note, we are just [...]

April 20th, 2007 | Category: happenings, outreach | Leave a comment

ants, rafting and church services

ants
Army ants are organised little things. They build bridges out of themselves and they have a heck of a bite. On Friday a colony of ants moved from one place on the base here to another. Hundreds of thousands of ants formed a massive convoy that ran across the base for several [...]

April 19th, 2007 | Category: happenings, musings, outreach | 3 comments

Easter dawn

I got up for 6am again yesterday morning to go to the dawn service on the base we are staying at.  It was pretty dark when we pitched up but it was totally worth it.  The service was nice and informal - on plastic chairs in the middle of the field facing in the direction [...]

April 9th, 2007 | Category: media village, outreach | 2 comments