(Writer's note: I just blipped the entire blog I wrote somewhere into cyberspace. What follows is a approximate reconstruction of the actual blog!) Saturday evening I tagged along to a party at the home of some of the Baltes' friends. I have learned a new word here that I like. The friends are from South Africa so I think the word "Braii" is Afrikaans. It's the South African word for "bar-b-que"! There was a whole lot of grilling going on! There was not only great food but great...

It's midnight in Zambia and I really should be asleep as I have to get up at 5 a.m. to head to Namibia. However, this installment is long overdue and so I thought I''d at least try to get a brief note written before turning out the lights. Speaking of lights, it's nice having a fairly regular power supply here in Livingstone. The other night I was about 50 miles north of Lusaka in a place where the power supply wasn't quite as dependable. Jeff Baltes and I found our way in the dark to the place...

Today I spoke to a group of trainees at the Advanced Missionary Training program of Overland Mission. The view from the "no walls" thatched classroom is spectacular. It's located on the ledge of the Zambezi River Gorge near Victoria Falls. I don't know how many hundreds of feet it is down the river but it's a sheer wall of rock and it's a LONG ways down. I don't know if anyone was even paying attention. It's hard to compete with such a stunning view. I know I was very distracted. I said...