For our trip to Malawi, I needed a book to read, so I went to our bookshelf, which has collected many books from the various missionaries who have lived in our house over the years. I had heard of “Hinds feet in high places” by Hannah Hurnard but had never read it. As I traveled, … Continue reading Malawi
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We praise the Lord for the reopening of our male medical ward. It has been closed for the last 9 months for renovations. Thanks to our partners both in the Netherlands (Eye for Zambia and Wilde Ganzen) and the US (BICWM) for the generous donations which made this possible. This completes phase one of a … Continue reading Projects Update
I have said these words so many times in my life but the time that is most etched in my memory is when I was looking out the back window of our VW van on the road leaving Safi, Morocco. I was 7 years old and my mom had just picked me up from school … Continue reading “This is the last time….”
Lilac Breasted Roller An unexpected hobby that Mark and I have developed over the past two years here in Zambia has been bird watching. Yup! You read that correctly We have apparently joined the club with no warning. It just kind of happened. White-browed Scrub Robin or Brown-crowned Tchagra (I’ll take votes on this one) … Continue reading We’ve become bird watchers!
While so many things happened in 2020 and 2021, at Macha Mission Hospital construction was a constant. At the start of twenty-twenty we were operating in the same operating room, with the same cracks in the wall, as when I first visited in 2009. The big hole in the roof in the hall was new … Continue reading 2021 From the Ground up
Home is where you hang your hat...or is it? When I was little, people always used to asks me whether I liked the US or ______ better (wherever i was living at the time)? Whether by someone else’s prompting or whether from my own wisdom and experience, I answered: “do you like your mom or … Continue reading “Home is where you hang your hat”
I am so excited that I must share! As you know I am a speech therapist by trade and over the past year and a half here in Macha, Zambia I have been trying to “start” to provide speech therapy to children. As part of that endeavor I have dealt with several children with hearing … Continue reading Hearing Comes to Macha
It seems like a contradiction in terms, referring to the day on which our Lord and Savior suffered and died as being good. Looking at the pain, the suffering, the loss, one could hardly call it good. As the disciples endured the loss, the fear of the unknown, it would easily be called in the … Continue reading What’s so good about Friday ?
There is no place like home for the Holidays. After spending a very hot Christmas in Zambia last year it was enjoyable to spend the holidays stateside. The best part of all was being with family. Arriving in the states just before Thanksgiving we spent the first 14 days with limited contact. This gave us … Continue reading Home for the Holidays
Saying good-bye to my mom back in November of last year I knew that there was the possibility that it would be my last time doing so on this earth. This has now come to pass. How do I process that from afar? One of my mom’s favorite songs in recent years has been “Count … Continue reading Grieving her departure from afar…
Mark and Maggie BICWM 