 | 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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| 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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 | 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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 | Valley of 1,000 Hills
2007-07-13, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | There is an area just outside Durban (around 1/2 an hour by car) that is called Valley of 1,000 Hills. But it could easily include Durban and be called that as well. On Tuesday we had lunch with a y... |
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 | The Durban Gandhi
2007-07-16, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Who is the Durban Gandhi? Why it is Mohandes himself. He came here as a young lawyer who was not meeting with much success in his own country and he came to provide some translation for a legal matt... |
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 | Toyi-Toyi
2007-07-15, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | At a meeting of activists around the issue of water there were clearly two different camps in the room. One camp was for engagement with the politicians and governments responsible for water policy a... |
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 | Served by Beauty
2007-07-09, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | On Monday after a slow and lazy morning, we headed out to visit the Diakonia Council of Churches who has made several arrangements for us during our time in Durban. We arrived and were ushered into a... |
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 | Sunday in Durban
2007-07-08, Durban, South Africa. By: mdmather | | Sunday in Durban we began with breakfast with the nuns at the convent we are staying at here – St. Philomena’s (or St. Phil’s to the locals). And then we headed out to the suburbs to attend worship a... |
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 | South Africa - Durban - Week One
2006-07-30, Durban, South Africa. By: beccas | | So I'm here and its incredible.. i think i shall stay lol.
It takes forever to get here. My parents were at the airport with me which turned out to be good, had less time to think about what I was ... |
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