by Tammy | Aug 26, 2010 | Daily Life, Personal
Today is 27 years of being happily married to my best friend! He loves the Lord with all he has – no photo of him and the Lord but the following photos show his love of Christ through his love of others! He loves the kids here in Kenya- He loves our kids in...
by Tammy | Aug 23, 2010 | Daily Life, Ministry
Tuesday we are heading to Nairobi…that’s good, bad and necessary. Good because we can find a few items we can’t get in Tala (cheese and hamburg to name just a few), bad because I don’t like the traffic, exhaust and pollution of the city...
by Tammy | Aug 19, 2010 | Daily Life
TIA (This Is Africa) or Karibuni Kenya (Welcome to Kenya) have been on my mind the past couple of days. Also “don’t chase time, let time chase you” or “no hurry in Africa”. It wouldn’t be so bad if I hadn’t had a schedule I...
by Tammy | Aug 17, 2010 | Daily Life
Language barriers can sure create misunderstandings. Recently Chuck and I went for a walk with a neighbor kid, Peter. As he was showing us his family’s shamba (garden) a girl came up to us, shook Chuck’s hand and said we cheated her. We didn’t...
by Tammy | Aug 16, 2010 | Daily Life, Personal
Getting to know someone takes time. But how do you go about it? I guess you begin by communicating. What do you do? Are you married? Children? Those types of questions which are pretty superficial but necessary, I believe, to starting some sort of friendship. We...
by Tammy | Aug 14, 2010 | Daily Life, Ministry
Death is “celebrated” different ways, by different people, in different cultures. I recently attended a visitation here in Tala. The woman’s husband had passed away due to cancer and Pauline and I went to say “pole”...