Siyaphila

Mulishani from Zambia!

We have arrived and we are ecstatic! Just a quick update to essentially say siyaphila (we are alive). Flights were long but that's how it goes. We arrived in Zambia yesterday afternoon to a farm full of family and friends from all over the world, but most especially all over Africa. That first day Willis got busy helping get things set up for our Celebrations and I sat around blubbering like a baby. It feels SO good to be here. We missed these people like crazy. What a gift to have been part of these lives and to continue to be part of it, despite being in Canada for the past two years.

It's a bit surreal. Yesterday I found myself going on an 8 km run with George and Levy on footpaths through tall grass in 33 degree weather. Eish. That was a bit much.

As I write this, Willis is with a crew of men fixing the road. Living the dream.

Not sure when we'll write again. I hope to not write too often. It becomes easy to experience things through a blogger's eyes as opposed to one's own. But, just wanted to say we are alive and we love you all.

K (+W)


To Shelly - Sukai just hugged me. Be jealous. She's got a cute little fro happening right now. She's the best.

Africa, siyabuya namuhla!

Staring out at the Poplars and mountains as I write this, it's hard to believe our view will soon turn to Acacias and mounds of red dirt. We leave today. We are THRILLED! I could hardly sleep this morning. I have found myself frolicking around the house, doing absurd and awkward movements with my body corresponding with absurd and awkward sounds with my mouth. This is what happens to me when I'm excited.

Just wanted to write this so people know we will try to blog about our journey.

We arrive in Ndola, Zambia on Sunday and are there for a week. Then we head down to our homeland in South Africa for a month as we prepare and wait for our lovely team members to arrive.

HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to all who have supported us with words, prayers, and moneys all along the way. We are truly grateful. We love our community here and are so excited to come back and LIVE among you!

Lots of love to you all!

K (+W)

Home and At Home

After two years of departing my long-time home in Africa, Willis and I will be returning. For a short stint, I assure you. We have the gift of returning for 3 months, two of which we will be leading a group of 8 fine individuals from Canada, Germany, and Australia, to and through four wonderful countries: South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. I've met (mostly through skype) most of them and truly feel like it is a gift and an honour to be comrades with these folk, journeying together through bush and plain, urban and rural, heart ache and joy.

Home is something I've been thinking about lately. For years I have been dancing back and forth between the notion of my home being in Africa or my home being in Canada, but Willis and I feel truly blessed with a calm heart in terms of "home". We feel like we've finally entered into a time where we are no longer wandering. We are making our home in Calgary. God is lining up all kinds of great things: a house, a job I love, schooling Will feels excited about, beautiful community. It's happening. Our African Father, George, visited us one weekend a few months back and shared with us about the Israelites that wandered until finally they entered the promised land and ate fruit from their land. This feels like us right now. No longer are we on manna. We are eating from our land. And this land finally feels like home.