Presentations coming up and check out our web album!

We will be presenting about our mission on Sunday morning, October 19th at 10:30 am at Island Wesleyan Church, Hampton, PEI.

We are also planning to make a presentation for our community on Sunday evening, November 2nd at 7:00 pm. This will include stories, our video, and lots of pictures. This will also be at Island Wesleyan Church.

Check out our pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/MalawiTeam/MalawiMedicalTeam200802#

We look forward to sharing with churches, schools or groups about our experiences.

Day 21
Oct 1, 2008
Pearson International Airport

We are waiting for our flight to Halifax and then the drive home. We are all tired from our long flight from Ethiopia. Getting our bags rechecked in Washington took much longer than anticipated and then we discovered that we weren't all on the same Toronto-Halifax flight. We left Stephen in Toronto and Mark will catch a later flight.

This is our last day together as a team. We have become close, will miss each other, but thankful to get back to our families.

Thanks to all who have been praying for us.

Day 20
Tuesday, Sept. 30
Addis Ababa

Our day in Addis ended in a cold, wet splash! As we were being taken through a leper colony by Dundee and Tamarat, Ethiopian friends of the Harris’s, along with three teachers from Bingham Academy (Jane, Summer and Christina), the heavens opened and it poured. We weren’t prepared and were all soaked to the bone, and cold. Here in Addis with an elevation of 7600 feet it is much cooler (sweater and jacket) weather. And of course because it’s in the northern hemisphere, the rainy season is just ending.

Despite the wet chill, we had a good day being shown around by our new acquaintances. Addis is a large sprawling city of contrasts – modern skyline with shanty town slums next to modern buildings. The poverty we saw here hit us differently, and really quite hard, particularly the homeless on the streets, the begging, and the conditions in the leper colony. Somehow the dignity of the villagers in Malawi and their pride in their compounds, and the laughter of the children were missing.

Our whirlwind tour included a lion zoo, an Ethiopian Orthodox Cathedral and Museum, a women’s ministry where they bake pastries and run a small café, a short talk by Anthony of the Joshua Campaign ministry, and some last minute souvenir shopping.

At supper at the hotel this evening we realized that it would be our “last supper” together as a team. We gelled well as a team and are all thankful for everyone’s contributions, the laughs and tears together, and the prayers that gave us strength from on High.

Tonight’s flight to Washington is an all nighter, then it will take us all day to get home from Washington.