Not exactly a white Christmas…
As we anticipate our one year anniversary of life in Africa, we have just come through our first African Christmas celebration. As one would expect, it’s a significantly different experience here than it is in Canada.
Most notably for us from The Great White North, the weather is drastically at Christmastime… temperatures [...]
MCC’s SALT program is a unique year long cross-cultural immersion experience for Christian young adults from the United States and Canada. Service assignments are available in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean and the Middle East.
Ashley Kraybill served with SALT in a rural village community of Zambia from 2008 to 2009. In this piece, Ashley shares [...]
My favourite thing about church here is, without a doubt, the singing! Whether it’s corporate singing, choirs, solos – it doesn’t matter – I love it all! Music has always created a strong emotional response in me, and here in Africa, that response is heightened. I’m not sure why, but I often find myself holding [...]
Sometimes, ya just gotta get away! A change of scenery… of routine… of food. Sometimes, especially when you’re living in a different culture, you just need to “escape”. This past weekend, we did just that!
Friday morning, after taking the girls to school, Arja and I decided that we needed a change of pace – some [...]
That’s what we need in Zambia sometimes – a “five loaves and two fish” sized miracle. I’m quite sure that somewhere in the Southern Province of Zambia in the past couple months, someone has thought of that very story from the synoptic gospels and wished for it to come true again.
You see, the problem was [...]