Home on Mission

Home on Mission

It is wonderful to be home! I miss Cape Town and the class but love the time with my family. While the sun seems extra hot because I left cold weather, I love the green that surrounds me everywhere I go, so used am I to seeing the ocean with its many shades of blue, but seldom green. I also realize that few homes around me in Cape Town have the luxury of much land for trees and wide lawns and so on, and I enjoy seeing this again. With all that said, much of my home leave will focus on Evangeline Ministries. With no time wasted, it was wonderful to be reunited with Barbara Hoge(to the extreme left of the photo) and other ladies Alice, Velma, and Barbara who were part of a Virginia quilters team that came to Cape Town in February this year and Robin and Donna who were part of a dental hygiene mission team who had just returned from South Africa . Alberta also joined because of her special love for mission work. What made it all the more special was we met at the home of Joanne Hendricks, one of my former colleagues at the Baptist World Alliance, my last job before Cape Town. It is good to speak about mission work with anyone who is interested, but even better to do so with those who have visited. While it was great to talk about the work I do in Cape Town, it was even better to hear of their mission experiences in South Africa, in Port Elizabeth and Barcelona and see how much love they poured out to the women, children and young men whose lives they touched on their mission visits. I left, encouraged at the many way that God is at work in our world today and thank God for these beautiful women.