Flats Hotel Luntu Kinshasa

... again. Several of the people I talked to have been members for 15 years or so, several for more than 20 years. The last time most of them had a visit from a church elder was in 2004 when they parted company from the previous association over doctrinal difference. They've been more or less alone physically, although they have been receiving sermon CD's and letters of fellowship from the generous group in Belgium that I will visit next month at the end of ...

... precaution. We chatted a bit as we waited. He filled me in on the local news: the situation is calm in Kinshasa, there is still trouble in eastern Congo around Goma, the economy is not improving, and the manager of the Grand Hotel just died of sorcery. My suitcase was one of the first out. I even got to skip opening my suitcase for customs. The hotel agent walked me out to the highway, since the car he had called couldn't drive into the airport parking lot. Someone ...

... eat, then crawl back into bed for about 5 hours then have my evening meal and a toilet break ,then I yawn, watch TV with the others for about 5min and then I yawn and decide that Id rather listen to music. So I called it a night, and here I am writing my travel log. This is what I have done since the first. I did see the Congo river, but I can no longer remember when we did that. I think it was the day before yesterday...Saturday. The Congo river is quite something. Where we were ...

... of the world and you can sing along to songs that made you different in the place you came from. It was awesome, like I was part of some secret club. Dawn seems to know a lot of the songs that came on... I suppose she hits the clubs like that quite often. Going to refuel does not count as going clubbing. Not once did I get sifted on... Quite disappointed. i suppose I was not as skanked up as everybody else in the club. :P Which I ...

This is the final straw... I have had ENOUGH of the hell-pit my father calls my room. The ****en A/c does not work. I sweat so much in there, when I wake up, my lips are dry and sealed together, I have to roll myself out of bed because I lack the energy to get out of bed. I have not had a full nights sleep since I left wellington. I wake up every bloody day at 3am... Before, i blamed the jet lag, but now I blame the room. You see, once you wake up, that is it... You ...

... thing I found in the house was an egg that had a hole in it!!! When I was looking at the hole, something crawled out of it!! ha ha I nearly dropped the thing. Papa was so so disgusted. so now, I do the float test on any eggs that I use. well, this pretty much is a complete update of what I have been up to, till 3.36am on the 24th. Dawn and Panashe get here this afternoon at 1pm. When they were in Bangkok, a bird flew into their engine. So the airline they were with put ...

... Singing is a very important part of life here; it was important that we get them off to a good start with learning the hymns. I anointed one woman for glaucoma, and we discussed as a group arrangements for the upcoming festival of Tabernacles. By that point it was time for people to begin the trip back to their homes. Some had a fairly long way to go, relying on public transportation which can be very time consuming ...

... me his English was not v**y good. He was an airport fix**, sent in by the people expecting me to expedite my arrival formalities. He is known to the airport authorities and trusted, so he can bend the rules in favor of his clients. He asked for my passport, and though I'm nev** entirely comfortable with this kind of thing, since he knew my name, and smiled and handed it ov**. He would take care of guiding it through immigration. Someone else took the ...

... during the time we have together in the future. By the time we finished it was late afternoon, and time for me to head back to the hotel. As we parted I asked them to come Sunday morning at 7:30 so we could go over some last minutes things, and also asked Jacob's help to find a local taxi rather than taking the expensive hotel taxis to the airport for my 10:45 flight to Nairobi.

... city, including our house, when we reached it, was in darkness, and there was no water. Apparently there are problems at Inga Dam, although these do not seem to have affected customers in Congo-Brazzaville, Zambia, Zimbabwe or South Africa. (Conspiracy theorists have not hesitated to interpret ...