Mamelodi '06 & '07

UPDATE:  For links for several blogs of people on the 2007 Trip, click here.


In April 2006, about 300 people from Cincinnati traveled to Mamelodi, South Africa on a Mission Trip.  This is my on-line journal of the trip.  I made it so that all of the people that thought of me, supported me, and funded me could be a part of the journey.

Initially, I thought that the journey was about the US people helping the SA people . . . later, I discovered that it was a mutual teaching/helping/learning process.

It was a good and worthwhile trip . . . and we're going back in '07.  My wife and many are going back to help and to help themselves.   I look forward to my wife and our friends returning there in June & July 07.

Click each of the below headers to see the entries under each major heading.

'07 They're Off!

'07 Mamelodi Prep

  • Mini-Drug Store
  • Kim's Announcement Letter/Email

'06 Before Departure

These are the entries while beginning the journey, planning the trip, and doing all of the before-plane stuff.

'06 In South Africa

The following ten entries were made while away from family and home (either just before leaving for the plane (the first one) or while in the Holiday Inn-Pretoria. 

As I wrote previosly, these entries were made to provide all those people that supported my to be along on the trip.

'06 Back in the USA

These are the entries after arriving back to "normal" - back to home.