HOME, SWEET AFRICAN HOME

Open-air kitchen and shade tree dining room.

AFRICAN BUSH CHURCH

Not the most comfortable, these pews, but this open air sanctuary knew the life-changing presence of God. Awesome memories of such meetings.

AFRICAN ROAD HAZZARD

Baboons will often swarm a car and refuse to leave. Some are very cheeky and have two-inch fangs.

We often got them to leave by rolling a window down a crack and throwing cookies or other food out.

When they jump down and fight over the food you "put the pedal to the metal."

THE FUTURE OF AFRICA

Few things you can do to help others have more lasting value than teaching children to read and write.

I've known this joy in dozens of countries and for thousands of children.

One Head of State, Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador, told me, "You have helped change my country."

CHILD WITH A BLOATED BELLY IS LIKE A LOGO FOR AFRICA

Bloated bellies come from malnutrition and stomach parasites.

A dollar's woth of medicine can cure the parasites, a few dollars per month can give this child food.

How could anybody not want to help this beautiful child?

AFRICAN BUSH

Barefoot boy with cheeks...

AFRICA HI-5

I love doing this.

DUSK IN THE AFRICAN BUSH

Where I love to be.

I was watching as about a hundred yards away a group of lions were stalking a young giraffe. Mama giraffe intervened and the lions gave up the quest.

Lions fear the long, lethal legs of the giraffe.

AFRICAN BUSH VEHICLE

What wouldn't I give to have a vehicle like this one?

BAOBAB TREE IN AFRICAN SUNSET

This tree--already growing when Jesus was born--is one of the most recognizable symbols of Africa.

It's pods are the original source of cream of tartar.

David Livingstone often set up his camps near the baobabs.

I can almost hear the echoes of Mr. Stanley saying, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

HERE COME DA JUDGE!

We knew this was a false charge by the position of the ears and the trunk.

It was meant to scare us away.

It worked.

The next charge would not have been a fake.

WEEPING AT THE WALL

Is it the pain of losing her parents that makes her sit quietly weeping facing the wall?

Did something happen to her that she knows will probably happen again--and again?

Will the missionaries and local staff that run this Children's Cup CarePoint be able to protect her and guard her health and get past the pain?

She's one of 14 million in Africa.

STICKERS!

Our African children love stickers. I've even seen a child get out of a food line to get into a sticker line. He was betting we would have more food there tomorrow if the food ran out today, and he knew the stickers would be gone in a few minutes.