It has been a couple days since I wrote anything so I figured I better let you all know that I am alive. I spent the weekend at a missions conference in a town called Kabwe, about 2 hours south of here. The conference was for African Missions, except not the way we think about it. It was for african missionaries to other african nations. It was really cool...and really long. The program ran from 730am to 9pm everyday and began Fri night and went Sat, Sun, and Mon. I didn't teach or anything like that, I was just there as an attendee. I got to hear about some folks doing stuff way more intense than anything I have considered.

There were a handful of folks that were so deep in the bush that it is a 30-50 mile bike ride or walk just to get to the nearest road, where you might be able to hitch a ride the remaining 100-150 miles to town. The only running water is a river, and the only electricity is the occasional lightning storm. Hard core missions. I hope God doesn't call me into that. Anyway, it put a lot into perspective for me. The teaching at the conference was really good as well. Now, I am back in Ndola chilling for a couple days. This weekend I will be linking up with a couple of Vineyard guys from South Africa and will begin doing some serious travelling. We will go to 6 cities in about three weeks and they are all quite far apart. I will probably not get to post or respond to emails very often during that time, so please be patient. Talk to you soon,

dave