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Everyday Blessings In Africa
With my bundles of joy at the Haven. These children are HIV positive

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Gracious, Gladness, Rose, and Chelala braiding my hair

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Some of my students would wait for me at this sign every day

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Teaching math at Namwianga Basic School

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The kids would walk me home every day. We would laugh and sing songs the whole way. Some of my most precious memories

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Going into the villages for HIV outreach. These little girls all have AIDS

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IN MEMORY OF......

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My precious baby Henry...He died Monday, October 27th, 2008

Holding sweet baby Lisa at the hopital in Kalomo. She died in November, a week after I left Africa.

Cynthia and Debbie sleeping on me. Cynthia died last week, and Debbie died October 7th

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Where Joy and Sorrow Meet

There's a place of quite stillness tween the light and shadows reach
Where the hurting and the hopelss seek everlasting peace
Words of men and songs of Angels, whisper comfort bittersweet
Mending grief and life eternal where joy and sorrow meet
For the wounded there is healing, strength is given to the weak
Broken hearts find love redeeming where joy and sorrow meet
There is hope in desperation, there is victory in defeat
At the cross of restoration where joy and sorrow meet
There is a place, where hope remains
In crowns of thorns and crimson stains
And tears that fall on Jesus' feet
Where joy and sorrow meet