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Some more Africa

Cowpuncher

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This is apparently the last message from Africa. Hope there will be a summary in a few days.

My dear friends on the other side of the globe -
> Today something happened to me that I can truly say has never happened
> before...last year we were able to help a village with a medical clinic -
> we helped them get all the medicine and furniture, tables, examining
> tables, scopes and scales and everything they needed to open...they opened
> in February - today the villagers and pastors and chiefs and local
> officers of all sorts came to honor what we had done. It was quite a
> beautiful ceremony - and in honor of our donation - the village presented
> me with my very own rooster!!! Quite a gift for a very poor village - I
> was honored and couldn't help feeling teary eyed as we drove the miles and
> miles home through the most beautiful rice fields you could ever imagine.
> Yesterday with the widows with AIDS was very special - they have such
> hope. One of the ladies who had weighed only 70 pounds when we found her
> is now up to at least 130!! In fact many of her villagers are saying she
> is "cured"!! We spent the afternoon in the Kabira slums - there are 4
> million people in Nairobi - 2.5 million of them live in slums - it is the
> most unbelievable sight I have seen in a long time. We took sewing
> machines to a group of widows in the middle of the area - we were a sight
> to behold - 11 white people in the middle of the slums - I can promise you
> they were saying that WE were the sight to behold!! We were singing and
> laughing with the kids - just amazing! Tomorrow we head home - it is just
> not possible to do it all in 2 weeks - but my heart can't take more than
> that away from the boys...I will write more when I arrive on US soil -
> please pray for us - it took us 40 hours and the loss of all our luggage
> to get here - we're hoping for 28 hours to get home...so much love ~
> Asante ~ jen
>
>
 

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