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
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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
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”
A beautiful sunset at the Dam in Macha. Praise the Lord the dam is at full capacity after the first rains of the season. Another gorgeous sunset painted by the master artist A beautiful evening in Macha Lilies popping up along the waters edge
This week water drilling crews began drilling 4 new bore holes for much needed water at Macha Hospital What a joy to see water coming from the ground as the drill passes 48 meters Maggie looks on as the crew works well into the evening to complete the bore hole A new bore hole has … Continue reading Water!!!
Maggie meeting with local leaders while delivering food to those far out in the bush along with Jaeron DeBoe and Vincent (our gardener and guide on the right) who knows where the poorest in the community have the greatest needLocal woman gives praise to the Lord for sacks of corn meal that we have been … Continue reading Something for which to be Thankful
Mark and Maggie BICWM 