Great week in Bwambo!

Many, many patients. Finished the new Maternity Ward. Ten new beds, with sheets and blankets from our Church in Stillwater, MN. Refreshing to see a clean room and beds :)

Kids happy doing projects in wards. Planted new flower garden and held Bwambo Olympics on Sat, with six events and 100 kids. Medals and sweets to the winners.

Most days finding food, planning meals, and cooking on wood stove. Feel like Mrs Ingalls. 

Charlie Kitchen Mama

Rose and Sokoini

This Week in Bwambo

Phones not working well this week. 
Cold weather in mountains, 50 degrees. 
Kids making garden near OB. 
Many deliveries!!
Molly working on pharmacy organizing. 
Godparents to child here,  Sunday is a big party with full choir!  
Great fun.  
Loving the time together as family.

Good Week in Bwambo

Many babies delivered (ten between Saturday and Sunday). 

Kids planting trees and painting parish buildings. 

Molly taught catechesis and many meetings with village womens coop. 

Enjoying time with family, simplicity of life here, daily Mass and adoration, and fresh mountain air. 

Thanks for prayers.  Much needed!

Full Days

Very full day in Bwambo!  Morning starts with bush babies waking us at 6am, then daily mass, boiling milk, chai, hospital rounds, then cleaning laundry in buckets to dry in fresh mountain air.  Kids helped parish Priest chop down banana trees to thin crop, Charlie (12) killed chicken for dinner, which became chicken pot pie in wood stove for diner. Adoration hour for nine-year-old patient who is dying of poisoning of local herb medicine.  Rosie (4) and Mary (10) sick with stomach flu.  No water in village now, making it hard on mama.  Simple life and home made creations make life bearable here.  Thank you for prayers from all friends and family.  Much needed!

Safari Njema! (Safe Journey)

June 10, 2012

We are off to Tanzania on Tuesday to work again at the Bwambo Health Center and Parish in the South Pare Mountains. Thank you all for your prayers, donations, and loving support. And, many thanks to the Mission Doctors Association and Elise Fredrick for making this all possible.

The kids are so excited to be back with friends in Tanzania. Francis said yesterday while packing, "I am so excited, I feel like crying"! Yes, we are truly grateful for this opportunity once again to serve our Lord through the people of Tanzania. Please keep us in your prayers as we travel from Dar es Saalam on Thursday on a very rough road, (a ten hour trip). Please feel free to write or comment in this journal. It is so comforting to get a note from friends and family while we are away.

Blessings and many thanks