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WORLD AIDS DAY: December 1, 2007 Today is World AIDS day. Here are some of the latest statistics on HIV/AIDS and it’s affect on the world: 25 million people have died of AIDS so far currently there are 38 million…

We have a new and improved “add video” function on our blog now, so I’m going to give it a whirl while I’m in the land of fast internet. This clip was taken during a visit to a “Care Point”…

COMING TO AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Tomorrow morning Ellie and I catch a ride to Johannesburg to catch our 6pm flight to Minneapolis via Washington DC. Please pray for safe and peaceful travels. I just wanted to hop on line quick and post our itinerary for while in…

Ellie and I leave for the U.S. in just 10 days and we’re running in a million different directions, as you will see reflected in the eclectic content of this blog post!    CAN A CHICKEN FLY FROM SWAZILAND TO THE…

It seems that at least a couple times a week I get an e-mail from someone requesting to buy some of our swazi handbags. Usually there is some sort of crazy communication chain that has put them in contact with the…

“We Love Because He First Loved Us” “We Love Because He First Loved Us.” 1 John 4:19. The topic of God’s love is, of course, pretty broad and HUGE, but at our women’s retreat here in Swaziland last weekend, we saw…

Just wanted to post a quick request for prayer… We have a women’s camp coming up this weekend. The 45 women that are volunteer cooks at neighborhood care points and who also sew the Timbali hand bags will be the ones…

We’ve had our first real blast of winter in Swaziland. I heard there was 5 inches of snow in Johannesburg a couple weeks ago, and people were scraping frost off their windshields in Swaziland’s capital city, Mbabane. We’re at a…

On Thursday I was out with the women for our regular meeting. We’ve been making lots of bags lately… this month we’ve made over 300, and they are pretty much all already spoken for. Here’s a picture of my friend…