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I am terribly overdue for an update. My excuses are the same. School is running along and each day brings new students, new challenges, new visitors, and new curriculum. Henrique continues to come and brings friends. One called PeeWee. They come and love the dancing part but sit attentively through the English lesson. Today I used a very basic primary book that taught on consonants and vowels and

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school has been amazing lately. it is nothing like i ever imagined and i am loving seeing it transform. our center kids have not been showing up as they are supposed to. we continue to have class and have just opened the doors to anyone and everyone. henrique is ushering in all sorts. yesterday and today we had a little boy who came in and quietly sat in the back and joined us. he lives in the

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Today we did an hour of English and then practiced, Left and Right and Front and Back and Around and other vocabulary by doing The Charleston! Turns out this visitor is quite the dance instructor and competed in international competitions and at one time was seventh in the world at something. She taught us how to do the Charleston today. I wish you could have seen these kids. I will try to video

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School changes every single day. Attendance remains a big frustrating issue. I am learning to be patient with myself and with them. I have to remind myself that at 14 if I were given the choice to go to school or get out of it, I would be at the Dairy Queen with Becky and Elizabeth. I am going with the flow and letting things adapt.  Henri in 2007 When I was here in 2007 I met a boy named

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Thanks to you were are getting materials in just a few weeks. A visitor is bringing a video projector and a set of DVD's! Dad picked out the projector and got us a deal and my friend Travis found these teaching DVD's for Community Development. I think the combination will be an excellent way to teach our community health workers. Having the projector will offer us more ways to teach all sorts of

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I am officially coming home March 25th! 6:30am. I will leave Pemba on March 23nd and fly to Johannesburg and stay the night. I will then leave Jo'burg on the 24th at 7:30pm and 17 hours later arrive in the ATL. I already know that I want my first meal to be the three egg omelet with soysage, english muffins and sweet potato cakes at Ria's Bluebird Cafe. I always get coffee but I might, just might

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Great day in the afternoon classroom. I just had two students, a very advanced student who could most likely serve as a translator and a bright student who understands Portuguese grammar well, and takes tidy notes, but she doesn’t speak much English. She often wanted to know the object in Portuguese and would answer my English in Portuguese. We spent an hour on the verb “to be”. Then Benjamin,

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Letters of donations received for 2011 have been mailed by ALF. If you have not received your letter please let me know and send your mailing address. Thank you for giving!

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School started this week. Only 4 students showed up and one was a village kid who walked in off the street. It was disappointing. There should have been about 30. It is certainly not about the numbers but disappointing that I have done all I know to do to raise awareness and to get everyone on board. Iris has been great in joining me in this endeavor and want to make this a part of the kids daily

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Granny McCarley always calls a bath, "tub bath". Was never  sure how one has a bath other than in a tub, until now. Here's the difference. My skin is glowing and my tan nightly washing down the drain. My fingertips are pruney even now from soaking. Just another perk of being 5'3". I am not sure how many more years my bursitis hip will let me still run and sit with my ankles on my knees but for

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School doesn’t start now until Monday. We decided to delay it to give the students a week to get settled before starting something new. So I am still waiting. I am anxious for it to start. I can certainly fill my days with just doing life here, cooking, cleaning, going to town, buying food, attempting to write, returning emails, meetings, buying school supplies, arranging teachers and planning

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I am in that moment just above deep REM sleep. I have had 8 hours of lovely, peaceful sleep. My lids are still heavy and shut tight but I see my closet doors, double and white with silver knobs, the sheet bunched in my fist under my chin, my mahogany end table piled high with books, my blackberry dutifully resting on top of a hardback. I open my eyes. I see a drab once white concrete wall, veiled

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 I am still waiting on curriculum to arrive. But have enough to put something together until it does. I have two new helpers with YWAM. We met yesterday and are meeting again today to get a few things ready. I have moved to the other base so pray the scooter holds up. Heidi told me they only last about a year. It ran out of gas yesterday. It was my fault, as it usually is when one runs out of gas

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2012 is here. Kind of hard to believe. Already fully aware of what a year has brought in my life. A full year of traveling and working and preparing and planning. I quit working in January. Went to Ohio and D.C. and Virginia in February. Mozambique and South Africa in March and April. In May, I spoke to the Bible Study women about my trip and shared the vision out loud and listed my house for

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We celebrated Christmas here with the kids on Christmas Eve. I had helped Emelyn sort the gifts for the boys in the Jimmy dorms and found them all lifting their new backpacks to make sure they were all the same weight. They promptly went through the wallets looking for money and stuffing it in their pockets and wearing their new threads and sunglasses. The younger boys got water guns and climbed

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The view from my front porch The Garden My Office The outdoor classroom

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I am still speechless and struggle for words to describe my absolute awe of being here. I still look back and ponder just how this all happened and how I came to this place, emotionally, physically, spiritually. Last Christmas, Christine had a baby boy and I spent the 21st in Athens, GA admiring him. I went to Kansas and baked cookies with Laura and her little family while John was in Iraq. We

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This morning I woke up under the covers of my Woobie (army blanket). I have air-conditioning! I am house sitting. The house is on the other base where there is no internet and there happens to be a field of little bamboo bars right behind the house. Bars as in they sell hot beer and bad gin (not that I have tasted it) bars. They play music all night long. But the lull of the aircon and then the

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i wake up to the sauna that is my bedroom. i pull my heavy body from the bed, the ill-fitted sheet sticks to me, a wrinkled moist clump underneath me. there are no covers. i lift up the netting and place both feet on the dusty floor and shuffle to the bathroom to brush my teeth, wash my face and apply the mornings’ sunscreen. there is no water coming from the tap. i pull a cup from a large

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I've been horrible about writing, but I think of you all the time. I wish I could show you every new thing I see. I wish you could meet Toba and Olga and Anselmo. Anslemo is having surgery on his feet in February. He is going to South Africa. Toba came over today with a friend to ask for yogurt and to get a band-aid for his friend. He had a bad scrape on his arm. I doctored it with ointment and a

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This will be our last week of classes before Christmas Break. We will reconvene January 16th. Earlier this week I was praying out loud for things that we need including ESL curriculum. The State of Georgia has been great to offer us whatever we need and I do have a list of instructional and study materials that I have given them, but I have felt like something is missing. Thursday I met with a

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We had ceremonies with the girls this weekend. It was an honor to participate and I am looking forward to spending more time with my girls. They are all so beautiful and I want to see them walk in strength and authority and purity. I want them to know who they are not settle or fall into bad marriages. I want them to make wise choices. Polygamy is fairly common here and there are many cultural

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The boys and the boat. Swimming with the boys.

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Every day here has been so incredibly full. I admit I don't know quite what to do with myself with the vast differences in simply how to do life. At home, I have limitless opportunities and things to do and see and attend. I have always worked and always had a 9-5, it is the only life I know. I said I no longer wanted my 9-5 and instead I got a 7:00am-11pm. Here, in a place where I have no car

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In 2008, I ran a half-marathon on Thanksgiving Day. As soon as I finished the race I drove north to Hartwell and ate absolutely guilt free. In 2009, we opened the doors for Cherokee Town and Country Club's new renovation grand opening. I rang up tickets from the waitress station in the corner. I got to feast on the finest of Thanksgiving cuisine. And again in 2010, I celebrated this day of

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As you can see I am having a blast. It still has not really hit me that I live here. But I am sure making the most of it. Saturday my neighbor wanted to get away for the day. It is nice to get off base, relax, take a nap, enjoy the beach and rest. So that is exactly what we did. We packed books and ipods and towels and sunscreen and water bottles. We drank Cokes and watched the sunset. We swam in

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This morning I drove up the beach to a spot where friends visiting here from Northern Ireland were taking their baby for a swim.  I have actually been to the sea with this couple before, while visiting them in Northern Ireland. Their son had not been born. They were so gracious and inviting and real. They taught me how to have proper tea. We ate really good chocolate and watched “Enchanted” and

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I was really hoping to add to these and will when the internet permits. This weekend was extraordinary. Just an exclamation point on the extravagant love of God and His desire for us to ENJOY! I can't believe that this is my life. I cannot believe that it took me so long to get to this place. I can't believe that what all I gave up gets turned back into the richest blessings. I used to live to

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A few hours after I wrote that last post, I went to town on the scooter. It was actually quite funny because I took my friend Nathalia. She's in her 20's, Columbian (not South Carolina), beautiful and hilarious. We decided to go through the village to avoid having to go the very, very long way into town. The road is under construction but a cut through the village puts you out just on the other

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It is hot today. The air seems still and I cannot find a breeze. There is no power today so a fan is futile. I have fast (by Moz standards) internet now but that won’t work either. Tomorrow marks my one month anniversary. We will have class today at 2, English and then Business. I look forward to their arrival. A mission school student is going to speak on Hospitality and Tourism. We met

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Teacher's Pets- Every one of them. They are all my favorites. Will from Georgia teaching English

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The internet has, once again, been down or slow and I have not been able to write. But I do try. Even now as I write this, it is going on and off and I am hoping that by the time I finish I will have a tiny signal, enough to hit send. I scootered into town yesterday! The road to town is under construction and it could take a very long time before it is repaired. I had to go the long way. Up a big

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I am really at a loss for words. My life has so drastically changed in such a short period of time.  A year ago I sat in an office in a suit in a concrete city and attended boring meetings and prayed to be rescued. Now I am sitting on a concrete porch in a plastic chair. A mangey dog has wandered up and is digging in the red dirt. I have not spotted a lizard yet, but I know he is watching me. Men

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November 1st marked our first day of classes in an unfinished building. The workers there were baffled and asked why we were meeting in a building that was not finished. The students who arrived on time got lollipops. Every student got a notebook, a pen and a pencil. A recently ESL trained mission school student from Athens, GA named Will, taught for 50 minutes. They practiced greetings and

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Airport tears Iris School of Vocational Training Today is the day. The scooter is up and running and I have even been scooting to base one for meetings and to the beach for a dip yesterday. I love each and every message from home and photos of your babies in costume. I love hearing about apple picking and cool weather. It is hot here. I find myself inadvertently applying deodorant before

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 Good things are happening with the school. Monday is our Grand Opening. It is nothing like what one would do in the States for such an event. There will be no mayor, city official, no ribbon that I know of. But there will be SEVENTY teenagers, SEVENTY cokes in bottles, cookies and cake, dancing and music and THAT makes a pretty grand opening to me. We will also do skits and will have speakers

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This whole place comes alive when the sun comes up. At the crack of dawn is already rush hour here. I awaken to sounds of children running off to breakfast and then school, employees showing up for work. A carpenter knocked on my door at 7:30 raring to go. I let him in and showed him what needed to be done and paid him to come back in 30 minutes to put a rod under the sink to cover all the

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Once on a plane ride, I actually think it was to Mozambique, I read a paperback book titled Confessions of a Shopaholic. I was embarrassed to be reading such a book and wished I could have hidden it underneath War and Peace. But, I was surprised at how good it was and how it made me laugh and how I had done so much of what the girl in the book had done. How she rationalized all her purchases and

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I can’t believe I have been here just over a week and I am already a few shades darker than when I came. I have gotten more sun on the past few days than in the last several months. My freckles are blending together and my nose is pink. Today is a Holiday in Mozambique. I don’t have internet enough to Google it, so I am not sure what we are celebrating. The kids do not have school and I can’t go

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a view that will bring you to tears my friend Enselmo

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I will be so excited when I get internet in my house. I have not seem to really find a place on base that works well. I didn’t even attempt to get on yesterday. Perhaps it was the way the wind was blowing this morning but I was able to check my IrisMin Account and got messages from Amy Eaves, Flo, and Carla. My sister sends me all the details from home and they bless my socks off. I hope to get

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I am having to exercise a whole new level of patience with the internet here. I write this from my home and then walk down the hill and pray that I can log on and wait for what seems like an eternity for sites to load. I can’t complain because at least I have some form of communication, however slow it may be. It does seem that my gdavis@irismin.org account or even facebook load faster than my

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my hotmail account doesn't work as well as my iris account unless i use the basic html version. all that said, emailing me here seems to work a little better. gdavis@irismin.org xo phone number coming soon!

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Yesterday took me back in to town. I had my long list of things I needed. I started the day by attempting to get on the internet. It didn’t happen. I needed to pay a bill online. I am realizing that I can’t rely on it here and Christine has agreed to help me back home. Thank you! I knew that I needed to be pleased with any purchase on my list that I could make and set out to town with a boy named

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I had made a long list of things to do yesterday, really none of them got done. Not a bad thing. Just the facts. It woke up at 7:30 and had to make myself get out of bed. It is not really all that hot here but I still wake with my hair plastered to my neck and my skin moist with sweat. And I still wake not yet knowing quite where I am. We have a mosque in our backyard. It is actually way up on

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day onereally no words to describe today. i harshly describe it as being punched in the face. reeling from the vast differences in culture and the fact that i am here today. very much my desire, but so very different from the life i had just days ago. i am anxious to be busy and full of activity and to make friends. no man is an island. the flight was not emotional or sad or even exciting other

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i arrived yesterday afternoon. my new home is beautiful and clean and tidy and neat and has an ocean view. i was greeted by my sweet little friend Olga, who is 11 and has no idea that she is one of the reasons i am here. now i am just in the process of unpacking and finding a carpenter to make furniture for my room and getting settled in my new space and getting a rod hung in my closet to hang

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I met last week with a Portuguese language teacher in Marietta. I was elated when she handed me a colorful self-published book entitled “English for Housekeepers: and other professionals”. Housekeeping was one of the first trades we realized we could teach. The hotels and lodges in Pemba need them and have promised to hire our girls once trained. The book is full of pictures and translations. She

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Molly and me i have promised to be open and candid and honest and frequent in writing. i don't have internet at the cabin so that is my excuse. i spent six days with laura in kansas and didn't want to leave. john kept the kids and we got to go out on the town. we picked the nicest restaurant in town and were headed that way but stopped by Wal-Mart first. i started to think about the long lines

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I left Hartwell last week and drove to Columbia, SC for a weekend with my cousin and her beautiful baby girl. Now I am writing this from Laura's living room in Kansas. I am here until Sunday. I feel like so much of my life is done solo. Just me on the road, on the go, packing boxes, making lists and phone calls and moving from one task to the next. So now it just feels so good to just sit and

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official departure date is October 7th. the dates have constantly changed and i have wondered if this day would ever come. i just bought my ticket. i am leaving this weekend to spend the holiday with Cousin Shannon and Baby Cousin McCarley. i will leave from there and go to Atlanta to fly to Kansas to spend time with The Steen Family and will get to celebrate Hailey's birthday.  my nephew

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10 donors @ $50 a month20 donors @ $20 a month $800 - Visa Renewal in March ( I will have to fly to South Africa)$600 - Health Insurance $0 for Lots of Prayer for safety, peace and wisdom (worth $ Bajillons)

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a six month Mozambican visa comprehension and retention of Portuguese finances: monthly support, Visa renewal, health insurance wisdom in choosing what courses are needed most and the most effective way to teach them materials and coursework in Portuguese favor from businesses and agencies interested in helping us an absolute miracle in getting my belongings in two suitcases oh! and

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For fee free PayPal giving: 1. go to www.paypal.com  2. give to cloutman@lifetv.org  3. select "GIFT" I will get 100% of the donation.

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Iris Ministries Introduction from Iris Ministries on Vimeo.

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I turned 34 this week. I always think about Jesus and my dad when I think of that number. So Jesus died about age 33. And now I am older than Jesus. It just makes me think, "I am older than Jesus. I better get busy". And then I recall being a child and telling others that my dad was 34. He is kinda always that age in my head. At the time, I would have been 7. I think it must have been that age

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This is the website for the new non-profit organization aidthentrade, that will oversee fundraising for the school! I love seeing the vision in words and pictures.  

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so as i sit here packing and sitting in a virtually empty house, a part of me is sad. i just feel a little sentimental and like i need to put on some Patsy Cline and feel sorry for myself. i am leaving my city, my town, my little bungalow. all i gladly give up. but in this moment i am already missing the ATL. the plan is to leave for Mozambique in September. i am so grateful to have rented out my

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For more photos click on my Photo Album

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Dear Friends,How the journey began:Ten years ago I drove to Atlanta on a Wednesday afternoon for two interviews, one with the Georgia House of Representatives, the other with the Peace Corps. I was hired by the General Assembly on the spot.  Yet, in the past ten years I have been to Africa, Central America, and Asia, all continents radically changing my worldview and my perspective on most

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Photography by Michaela Potterbaum Music by Brock Human

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We went back to the University Thursday and met with 4 different classes to help them with English. Many speak it incredibly well. We giggled when a girl asked us if the word "friends" is pronounced "friends" or "fraaaands", as we must have said it with our Southern accents. It was interesting to learn about their culture and their generation. Most all students live at home until they are married

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Yesterday we went to the local university and got to help teach English. Dad taught them to say y'all. They took notes. We also got to go to downtown Santa Cruz to the opening of an art show. Today we are going back to the elderly center to take donations. This morning I am going to the dentist, yes, the dentist. I am becoming a big fan of Bolivian health care. Then tonight, my friend Jana and I

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On Saturday we went to an elderly center. It is this beautiful facility in El Torno, outside of Santa Cruz. The elderly can come here and gather and have a free meal and medical care.They gather to sing and worship and be together.  They want to build dormitory style facilities for them to come and live. Most are indigenous Quechua. They are such a beautiful people. They have recently applied

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Mozambique President joins leaders of global tourism effortJul 08, 2011 MADRID, Spain & LONDON, UK - “We support tourism as an area of major importance in our agenda to fight poverty,” said Mozambique’s President, Armando Guebuza. The President was speaking after joining the UNWTO/WTTC Global Leaders for Tourism Campaign (Maputo, Mozambique, June 28, 2011). “Given its impact in terms of

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all donations are now tax-deductible! you can give online via the links on the right. the "subscribe" button allows you to give automatically each month. just let me know if there is a specific increment you would like to donate. the "donate" button allows you to make a one time donation. you will receive an end-of-year statement from Abundant Life Fellowship, my sweet friends who are letting me

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I had my first ever fundraising party. Ramona Kucera went above and beyond. It was a small gathering and it felt good to be amongst people I love. I am constantly reminded that summers, dinners, desserts, hugs, sunsets, with my family are never frequent enough and any time I have with family and friends just feels good. So if you find me starring at you, I am just soaking you in and making a

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an update from Iris Ministries

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A Renewed Mind is One That Will Not Contemplate a Single Day Without Favorexcerpt from "Radical Perceptions" by Graham CookeWhen the Father puts us into Christ, He envisages the same relationship with us that He enjoys with Jesus. We are in Christ so that all the favor He enjoys now comes to us also.We are not given favor because of who we are, but because of who Jesus is. His favor is ours

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This time last week I was in Austin, Texas. I went to visit new friends, people I barely knew. Funny how you can know so much about someone whilst knowing so very little. I met this couple, only for a moment, last year at a conference with Iris. They were easily highlighted to me. They just stood out. Granted we were both perched on the front row and were there for a couple of days, still they

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All your donations are now tax deductible. You may make checks payable to: Abundant Life Fellowship or ALF and mail them to me @  c/o Jene Davis 7406 Reed Creek Highway  Hartwell, Georgia 30643 You will receive an annual statement from them at the end of the year. If you are interested in automatic monthly deductions, electronic payments or have any questions, just ask: jgracedavis@

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I think I have a renter for my house! A nice, sweet one who is delighted to live here.  I am taking private Portuguese Lessons, four hours a week. (Thank you Mama's Bible Study) I am visiting friends in Texas for the weekend.   (Burglar's don't read this.)

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I went "on tour" last week. That line makes me laugh. I spoke to three Bible Studies. These women are the most powerful group of people in all of Northeast Georgia. If you have need, let them know and they will pray it down for you. I was a little nervous. Just who am I anyway? What do I know? I hate being in the limelight. I really have very little to offer these wise God fearing women. But

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I am moving to Mozambique. I plan to leave September 25th-ish. I will be the director of a vocational school with an NGO (non-governmental organization), teaching job skills. The vision grows larger every day, but for now we want to teach: English mechanicsbrick makingcarpentryplumbingwound caremedical diagnostics (lab technicians)hospitality and tourismfinance 101We want to serve as a liaison

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Atlanta Craftsman Style Bungalow Close to downtown. In need of a Renter. A good one. Who will mow the lawn. Treat it with Love. Fall in love with it. And buy it. For what I paid for it. Serious Inquiries Only :)  404.312.0479

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There is a book out there called Re-Entry: Making the Transition from Missions to Life at Home. I honestly used to think it was silliness and one could never loose a sense of being so profoundly. But Thomas Wolfe had it right. I know that the sense of "home" varies. Coming "home" to this house took years. I always felt like I was coming home to someone else's house. Then I went away for a week

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My last day in Cape Town was perfect. I got to have a warm breakfast of strong coffee, spinach and feta croissant, side of eggs soft scrambled with my new friend, Caroline at The Olympia Cafe and Deli in Kalk Bay.  The bay, the ships, the shore, the conversation, the coffee,.all so perfect. I even got to go back to Groot Constantia and taste the wine Napoleon drank. I didn't even ask. They lady

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today is my last day in cape town.  i am packing up my things now, meeting my new friend for breakfast and will be on an afternoon flight to johannesburg.  during this trip, i saw penguins, went to a prison and tutored kids. i have been overwhelmed by the powerful work of The Warehouse and their gracious hospitality. i have made wonderful new friends and hope to come back here again one day...

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I got to go around site seeing some yesterday! We saw Penguins at Boulder Beach, drove through Chapman's Peak, went to Hout Bay, through Simon's Town and to Groot Constantia for lunch. The drive was breathtaking and just incredibly stunning. I think Groot Constantia was my favorite. We had lunch there and I had Vegetable Curry in traditional Malay style. Groot Constantia is the oldest wine

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so just so you ladies know, it is 11:15pm. i am dog tired. in hartwell talk, that means exhausted, worn slap out. not sure why slap makes it more worn out than just worn out, but i am worn slap out. i have not stopped since i left atlanta. i have not really sat down, literally. they don't have sofas in pemba, days are full of walking and activity and hustle and jobs to be done. and now i am here

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yesterday i went to Sweet Home Farm. quite nothing like what it sounds. it's name makes it sound like an organic bakery or a new plot at Serenbe. but it is an incredibly poor settlement where The Warehouse has become involved. they helped a woman named Christina open a restaurant. simple, basic, tiny little place, with the best fried bread sandwiches i have ever eaten. they are called amagwinyas.

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i get to go to Sweet Home Farm today! really excited about seeing this. i arrived late last night and have been graciously accepted by The Warehouse and am being served Rooibos tea even now. even after three short weeks in Pemba, i instantly settled in to the life of children, noise, Portuguese, Makua, heat. i miss it already. overwhelmed by the hospitality here, of complete strangers taking me

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today is my last night in mozambique. time flew by. so fast. i leave tomorrow afternoon and fly to johannesburg and then to cape town. i will be in cape town until april 13th, visiting The Warehouse www.warehouse.org.za i am looking forward to hot water, fast internet and a diverse menu.

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Yesterday we went into the village. If you were to go, it would change you. It is incredibly eye-opening to see how most of this country lives, and actually these villages near town are "nicer" than most typical African villages. Mud houses, some with metal roofs, so many children, narrow passageways built with bamboo for fencing and privacy, but maze-like in their design. We walk through the

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don't let the bed bugs bite. they did. they devoured my right arm. so my mattress is out in the sun on the steps and i doused it with an aerosol bug spray. the past few days have been hot and eventful. we were going to interview a few of the girls here at the base to get their stories and ask them questions about their future to get an idea and a profile of what these kids interest are and how

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as i sit upright and Indian-style, taking my malaria pill with warm bottled water and a had full of almonds, sweat beaded on my upper lip, under my mosquito net, stained with tiny remnants of the vile creatures, i don't quite know where to start. in writing, you are supposed to know your audience. i am supposed to see who i am writing to and tell them them story. so here i see, Graham & Teena, my

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I am in a little area outside of Nelspruit called White River. It is incredibly beautiful and reminds me of Zim. I am not far from Kruger and would love to come back to go to the park. I leave in the morning for Jo'burg on the 3.5 hour shuttle and then have a late afternoon flight to Pemba that arrives after midnight. This place is just stunning. My flight was sheer bliss and all is well. I could

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so in that moment, when my boss is telling me that i am being released from my job of ten years, all i could honestly think of  was that i was free. i was instantly free to go and dream and do. in that moment, there was very little sadness or anxiety because i was simply elated that i could join this team in going to africa and helping to start this vocational school. and now, a month later, the

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