Ray of Hope

Warning: This is a very long post. Enjoy :) After our first week of activities in Harare, the team took a 540-mile journey to the Victoria falls area of the country, leaving on Monday, March 13. Thankfully, we had a good car and an experienced driver yet the number of police checkpoints (approximately 30) and toll booths made it an arduous journey, especially for our driver. We were stopped at a fourth of these police checkpoints. Victoria falls is an amazing site and experience, especially from the air, and I don’t think words are enough to describe this seventh wonder of the world. It is a sight to behold. Apart from the falls, there were tours on the Zambezi river and at the Chobe national park in Botswana. We also shared interesting culinary experiences testing our curious taste buds with Impala, Mopane worms, Guinea fowl, Kudu, Warthog, Crocodile tail and whitebait. The team at the Victoria falls  On Thursday March 16, we returned to Harare arriving ar...

On Tuesday March 7, my dad and I joined Brad and Jessica Johnson, Brian Keene and Tom Wilson on a mission to Harare, Zimbabwe. Brad, Jessica, Brian and Tom were on a South African airline flight from Washington DC to South Africa. This flight made a quick stop in Accra to drop and pick passengers in Ghana. This made it possible for my dad and I to join the team. The flight from Accra to South Africa was about 5.5 hours and another 1.5 hours from Johannesburg to Harare. We arrived in Harare around 9:30 pm local time. Harare is 2 hours ahead of Ghana and 7 hours ahead of central standard time in the US. We were met at the airport by our host, Rodgers and Emmah Kativu, church leaders and some family members. Rodgers is the head pastor for the Methodist Revival Church International (MRCI) in Zimbabwe. After the usual pleasantries and introductions, we departed the airport for the Coghlan Villa guest house, our residence during our stay in Harare. We rested the following day, v...