Jane

This is Jane and I in the bush. I would guess that she's about twelve years old. Even though we couldn't communicate with words I could tell that Jane was a very responsible, sweet girl.

In the Bush Bush

After being on the Iris base for about a week, my team went out to the "bush bush" with several Mozambiquan pastors and translators for two nights and three days. I brought a tent, sleeping bag, water bottle, malaria medication and bug repellant, and a clean shirt. We piled onto two cameons (open flatbed trucks) and rode about two hours to a very small village. They were miles from any town, and had no water supply.

Nuru

This is Nuru. At least, that's how I'm guessing you spell his name. The "r" is rolled, so it almost sounds like "Noodle" (which is what some of us called him). :) He lives at the boys' home on the Iris Ministries base where we stayed in Pemba, Mozambique. He's about 7 years old. He loves to sit on your lap, and he's funny. He's always making faces & being silly. One day I came down to the boys' home to just hang out with the boys on their playground.

Johannesburg, South Africa

We stayed in Joburg for 3 days before going to Mozambique, at the Southern Sun Garden Court Hotel (which was very nice, and has a great restaurant in the lobby!). Joburg is a pretty large, westernized city, with all the amenities that we would have in the US. It was a nice period of rest to get used to the time change. This amusing sign was in the hall the day we checked in: