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Brazzaville to Kinshasa
... with people and goods...oh dear not a life jacket in site! People were really friendly and chatty and even the nasty whip carrying official kept checking to make sure we were ok... Haha must have looked like we are ******** ourselves. It was great fun!! Kinshasa side was better controlled, that's what a tazer and the ol whip will do! Immigration came to us and so did customers for the carnet. All fine ...
Week one in the books!!
... and it is so green and rich in color and there are rolling hills with valleys all over the place. It was like Florida and the Black Hills. When we arrived in Tshikaji, quite a few children chased the van as we pulled into the Fletchers driveway. They all greeted us a million times and wanted to shake all of our hands over and over again. It is customary in the Congo to greet everyone individually, so I made sure to shake everyone’s hand. The rest ...
To the Congo
... was a crush of people coming and going, buying picks and handles, jacks, tools, and many other metallic items. Guy handed over my nut and bolt combo and asked in Ewe to a duplicate set. The attendant disappeared in the back for several minutes to try the varieties in their stock. He came back with a pair that had the same threads that I needed. To prevent theft, the employee who fills out the sales slip is not the same one who collects the money. When we went to the slip-filler-outer ...
It's So African!
... had jackets on...mmm....felt good to me.It was getting dark when we hit Kinshasa, so what we saw wasn't too bad. It's hilly which I wasn’t expecting.
After preaching Sunday I go to the retreat center where the annual ECS Angola conference with coordinators and correctors from all over Eastern Congo will be. So I will go downtown Monday at 7 a.m. to their ministry office and get picked up there as the retreat is in town somewhere. ...
Orphan Story
... his new little sister for an entire day to play with and love on them. Perhaps we will get to skype with their new family so they can see eachother live for the first time.
I am so excited to get to be such a tiny part of these kids lives and to hopefully be a blessing to the parents by letting them know how thier kids are doing and checking in on them. I love being used by God! It is so much fun! ...
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