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'They admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth . . If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country . .' (From Hebrews 11:13-16) When, in the creation story, Adam...
A Sunday afternoon drive in Nepal One Sunday afternoon in Nepal two colleagues and I drove about six miles to visit a twelve hectare piece of land owned by the hospital. It was open farm-land. Now, a few years on, it is thickly wooded, as thousands of young trees...
Jesus healed those he met who needed to be healed, and at the same time he spoke to them about the Kingdom of God[1]. Their healing was part of the evidence for his authority, but apart from that he had no hidden agenda. There was: No disgrace in the diagnosis...
A few hundred yards from the Church of Uganda mission hospital in Kiwoko stands a simple memorial. It marks the mass grave of 372 people killed by government soldiers in 1985. That atrocity was one of many perpetrated during the bush war in the Luwero Triangle in the 1980s. These...
I have long wanted to nurse and travel. Here was my opportunity to combine the two. I applied to a number of organisations who have links with hospitals in India, South America, Africa and Israel. Africa Inland Mission International (AIM) offered me the chance to nurse in Uganda with only...
I arrived in Bangladesh the day the rains finished. Waterlogged fields made the final approach to the airport look like we were touching down on a swamp. The temperature was warm, the air humid but bearable. Airports are thankfully the same the world over. Day two found me on a...
