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Back to Bulembu

Rebecca — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:04:03 +0000

This past week, the AR team, along with Vincent & Gloria and potential AR staff for the coming year, returned to Bulembu, Swaziland, where we visited in December. A few things struck me on this second visit. I loved Bulembu the first time but was [...]

Malealea Music

Nathan — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:32:51 +0000

For our final post on the Lesotho trip, we share a video from the performances put on by local musicians at the Malealea Lodge. The singing and dancing was superb, complete with homemade musical instruments.

3D Pano: Malealea Band, Lesotho

Nathan — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:00:45 +0000

The guests at Malealea Lodge in the tiny country of Lesotho enjoy watching the local band play their homemade instruments and dance just after sunset. Instructions for Viewing the 3D Panoramic Image: The image above is a three dimensional panoramic image. Click on the image and drag [...]

3D Pano: Ribeneng Hut, Lesotho

Nathan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:00:49 +0000

This pano is of the inside of a traditional Basotho hut where Rebecca and I slept a night. We shared the hut with a couple of birds all night, who took shelter from the rain and cold. Located deep within the mountains, the village of Ribeneng is only accessible by horse or on foot. Instructions for Viewing the 3D Panoramic Image: [...]

Lesotho: The Kingdom In The Sky

Rebecca — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:13:17 +0000

This past weekend, Nate and I traveled to the tiny landlocked country within South Africa called Lesotho (pronounced Le-soo-too). The trip was nothing less than a real African adventure! Called “The Kingdom in the Sky,” Lesotho is a spectacularly rugged, mountainous country populated by a hardy people, the Basotho, who live in isolated communities too [...]

3D Pano: Boys Dorm, Iris Ministries Mozambique

Nathan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:32:28 +0000

This pano was taken in one of the boys dormitories at the Zimpeto Ministry Center run by Iris Ministries in Mozambique. Thanks to Sharon Lee (the dorm mother) and the boys for welcoming us into their living quarters. Instructions for Viewing the 3D Panoramic Image: The image [...]

3D Pano: Machava School Room

Nathan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:00:16 +0000

This pano was taken in a school room at the Machava Ministry Center run by Iris Ministries outside of Maputo, Mozambique. Instructions for Viewing the 3D Panoramic Image: The image above is a three dimensional panoramic image. Click on the image and drag left, right, up or [...]

3D Pano: Machava Playground

Nathan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:00:07 +0000

This 3D virtual image was taken on the playground at the Machava Ministry Center run by Iris Ministries outside of Maputo, Mozambique. Instructions for Viewing the 3D Panoramic Image: The image above is a three dimensional panoramic image. Click on the image and drag left, right, up [...]

Iris Ministries: Maputo, Mozambique

Rebecca — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:33:00 +0000

Last week, the AR team and Pastor Vincent traveled to Maputo, Mozambique, to visit Iris Ministries, a ministry started in 1995 by American missionaries Rolland and Heidi Baker. We first learned of Iris through the book Always Enough, which Nate and I each read a few months ago. We found the book very challenging, as [...]

The Beauty of South Africa

Rebecca — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:35:14 +0000

In early February, the AR team plus our good friend Nate Massey journeyed 9 days to and from Cape Town. We traveled there via the Garden Route that runs along the South African coast, and returned home via the direct route, which meant 18+ hours [...]

ABC Ministry: Out of the Miry Clay

Nathan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:01:53 +0000

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.—Psalm 40:2 Abandoned Babies for Christ Ministry was started by Robyn and Gerry Richter more than a decade ago and is located in the mountain village of Bulembu in [...]

Bulembu, Swaziland: God’s Redemptive Hand At Work

Rebecca — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:12:33 +0000

In early December, the AR team traveled to Bulembu, Swaziland, for a week for the dual purpose of visiting a friend of Allan’s from seminary, Lee-Ann McFarlane, who runs a ministry there that provides early care and education to children ages 2-6, and to check out whether Bulembu could serve as another site to which [...]