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November 2011
Journal 10 – November 10, 2011
Greetings from Zimbabwe, The old truck has been sold. We received $1,500 for it and it will cost more than that for the buyer to put it in running condition. The money from the sale [...]
October 2011
Journal 9: October 31, 2011 From Zimbabwe
Greetings from Zimbabwe, I have commented in previous journals about the weather being so mild for this time of year. October is usually the hottest month of the year; this year the nights have been [...]
October 18, 2011 Journal 8 Greetings from Zimbabwe
Greetings from Zimbabwe, I must apologize for an incomplete sentence in Journal 7. I was in a situation where I was putting final touches to the journal and I had to email it immediately or [...]
October 8, 2011 Zimbabwe Journal 7
Greetings from Zimbabwe, The weather is very cool today, as it was yesterday. It seems that the heavy rains have cooled the air. It is something I have never experienced this time of year in [...]
October 5, 2011 Zimbabwe Students and God’s Blessings
Greetings from Zimbabwe, Tomorrow Jeff and I need to go to Harare to take care of several bits of business. So I am going to put together a Journal to night. I am uncertain when [...]
September 2011
September 25, 2011 Some Cuts are needed Due to Low Revenue
Greetings from Zimbabwe, Some projects here are moving forward and others are at a standstill. Thursday, a large truck load of sawdust was delivered for bedding in the chicken run. The sawdust is free, there [...]
September 14, 2011 Zimbabwe Mission
Greetings from Zimbabwe, Our gardener, Lovemore’s wife passed away a couple of days ago in Motoko. She had been in not good health for some time. More recently she had been in the hospital in [...]
September 04, 2011 Zimbabwe Journal
Greetings from Zimbabwe, Our need for an ambulance was reaffirmed this afternoon. Late in the afternoon, Jeff was summoned to take a woman to the hospital. Beauty the nurse felt that she was having a [...]
September 2, 2011 Arrive in Harare
Greetings, Jeff and I arrived safely in Harare about 6:30 last night, Friday. We stayed at the B & B that Ralph and I often stayed at. The drive was long and tiring but had [...]
October 2010
October 21, 2010 Children of Zimbabwe
Greetings from Colorado, I apologize for not sending a final journal from Zimbabwe indicating that we would be returning to Colorado. On Oct. first, we had a window in our truck smashed in Harare and [...]
September 2010
September 17, 2010 Water at Last
Greetings from Zimbabwe, Ralph and I stayed overnight in town after putting Todd on the plane for his flight home. The following day we drove up to Howard Hospital with Priscilla and Claudio Penny. We [...]
Arrival in Zimbabwe
Greetings from Zimbabwe, I just realized that the first journal I wrote when we arrived in Zimbabwe did not send. I apologize for keeping you wondering if we arrived safely. All is well here. We [...]
September 2, 2010 Water & Medical in Zimbabwe
Greetings from Zimbabwe, The past week has been packed full. Deanna, Carol and Todd arrived late August 23. We had made arrangements in advance to stay in town overnight. The next morning a meeting was [...]
August 2010
August 19, 2010 New Bike for Rosemary
Greetings from Zimbabwe Recently I wrote about our gardener having to walk such a long way to come to work. She told me that she left home at 5:30 a.m. in order to arrive at [...]
August 4, 2010 Much is Needed, Much is Provided
Friends, Amanda and Joan are home now. It is a bit lonely here without them. Amanda had a difficult time leaving. She was anxious to go home but knew she would miss the children. There [...]
July 2010
July 28, 2010 Plans for Moringa Plantation
Rosemary is one of the gardeners at HCOC. She is a faithful employee and a dedicated worker. Rosemary lives near Guzha Primary School which is 15 km or nearly 10 mile from the HCOC garden. [...]
July 4, 2010 A Renewed Hope in Zimbabwe
Dear Readers, After visiting the new site and watching ZESA people install the transformer, we decided to drive Joan and Amanda to where the bridge was built ten years ago. We continued on so that [...]
July 2, 2010 New Water Well in Zimbabwe
Dear Readers As is usual in Africa, things never happen as planned. We didn’t leave Pretoria, S.A. until Tuesday morning. We drove close to the border and spent the night. Our start the next morning [...]