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Bahurutshe Cultural Village Field Trip and a happy VISA updte

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                    Modern Africans love modern living, modern technology, and all the creature comforts that come with living in the 21st Century.  Yet the older generation fears the loss of traditional values, customs, and traditions.  So the old women of the village of Bahurutsche invested time, money, and much effort into developing a cultural experience which demonstrates and keeps alive the traditions they lived for centuries.  Designed for the members of the community, school children, and visitors, I stumbled upon this gem of a cultural village and arranged for several of our missionaries and seniors to visit last PDay.   The people of the village greeted us with ululations, song, and dance dressed in their traditional garb.                                                 The old women i...
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You know life's too busy when you can't find time to blog

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                                              Our Visa problems persist. Sadly we receive a handful of new missionaries only to find them reassigned out of Botswana when their 90-day entrance Visa expires.  We have sent as many missionaries to Namibia as we dare; if we overwhelm the Namibia Immigration Department with too many Visa requests, they may well spook and revoke the ones we already have.  We send more missionaries out of the mission than we receive as attrition takes our older ones home after their 2-year commitment.  And so our numbers continue to dwindle and our mission is slowing being phased out.  It saddens and discourages us.  But we know eventually things will turn around and the immigration officials will figure out how vastly we contribute to this country and to their economy and the welfare of their people, and our numbers will g...
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