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 | Time to go
2007-08-10, Kayamandi, South Africa. By: kmurphy | | Well i am now leaving in less than 1 week. I can't even believe that my time here has come and gone so quickly. When i first arrived, i thought this day would never come... time passed so slowly. I am... |
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| I don't want to leave
2007-08-01, Kayamandi, South Africa. By: kmurphy | | So i guess my time here in Kayamandi will soon expire. When i first arrived the conditions were very shocking and i had a lot of trouble getting used to the changes. But now that i only have a few wee... |
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 | Kathy the Compass
2007-07-30, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Kathy is the one who sets our courses. She does that literally as she has the GPS. Thank goodness she had needed one for her work of making home visits to new moms and their babies. Before we left ... |
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| Conor the Ear Folder
2007-07-30, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Conor has a talent that is unusual. I don’t think I’ve ever come across it before. When he is bored, or reading, or playing cards or watching television his right hand will steal up to his ear and t... |
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| Jordan the Entertainer
2007-07-30, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Cedric the Entertainer has little on Jordan. Jordan knows how to have a good time and every situation reminds him of a scene in a movie or a television show. His favorite reference is the television... |
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| The Shop that Sells Chickens and Luggage
2007-07-30, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | We went by the Victoria Street Markets on Monday afternoon. We wandered around among people selling Indian spices like – I swear – “Mother-in-law Exterminator” a red spice that I didn’t want to even ... |
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 | Watching the Weaver Birds
2007-07-29, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | On Sunday morning I got up before 6 am – showered and headed out the door (by myself) to begin the 20 minute drive to St. John the Baptist Anglican Church in Pinetown where I would be preaching at the... |
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 | This Beautiful Mess and Bishop Purity
2007-07-23, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Roland, who works at Diakonia, had leant a book to me by a pastor in the United States entitled This Beautiful Mess. It has been an interesting book to read. The author is a little more conservative... |
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| Self Help Groups
2007-07-23, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | On Monday morning I went with Lunga and Roland to visit some self-help projects in the rural areas outside of Durban. I was in what is called the “INK” area (that stands for something but I forget wh... |
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| A Night to Remember
2007-07-23, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Most of our meals have been in restaurants for the past couple of months. But on Monday night we had a special treat. Paul and Sally Hobden are related to our friends Peter Walshe and Ann Pettifer i... |
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 | My Most Unsuccessful Flight
1999-01-10, Cape Town, South Africa. By: tjtunes | | The tax return I received from quitting my job could either see me through a few lost weeks trying to figure out exactly what the next step was, or I could bugger off to Cape Town, South Africa to vis... |
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| 3 weeks left
2007-07-25, Kayamandi, South Africa. By: kmurphy | | Hi everyone!
I know i havn't had many new journal entries or pictures added on the website in while. It's because the internet place that I have been going to has been extremely busy and so the int... |
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| Prayers at Meal Times
2007-07-21, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | On Tuesday this past week we enjoyed lunch at a place called the 191 Tea Garden at 191 Musgrave Drive in Durban. We were joined by Roland (from Diakonia), Paul, the youth minister at Manning Road Met... |
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| Quality Guaranteed
2007-07-19, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Thursday brought a very interesting day all of its own. I was picked up at 8:15 at St. Phil’s by an Anglican priest, Sue Brittion. She was one of the religious leaders in the white community during ... |
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 | Howick Falls
2007-07-18, Howick, South Africa. By: mdmather | | After we left Steve on Wednesday he sent us off a little further north to an area called “Howick Falls.” Howick Falls is located in the small town of Howick. You can imagine people coming out on a l... |
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| A Visit With Steve
2007-07-18, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Last Sunday when I preached at the Central City Mission – the pastor, Dr. Kumalo, had said that he thought that I talked some like a colleague of his at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritz... |
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| A Visit to St. Anne's
2007-07-18, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | This morning began with a visit with Father Danker who is the parish priest at St. Anne’s, near the convent of St. Phil’s where we are staying. He has been the parish priest there for 22 years. He i... |
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 | Pilanesberg Park Camping, a Rhino around every corner
2007-07-07, Pilanesberg Park, South Africa. By: rmalone | | Pilanesberg Park - about 2 hours out of Johannesberg past Pretoria, some toll roads
Mayane Camp- privately run camp with rooms and tent sites and gate guards. Trees. Lots of birds. Nice restoo... |
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