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Note: While we were there we had four days with limited access to wifi making posting to this blog more difficult. The blog posts starting with this one will come out of chronological order as I reflect on the trip we took to South Africa. Now, on to the visit to the seminary: While we […] Continue reading → 
On Monday, we spent the day with Bishop Michel Hanrod of the Cape of Good Hope District of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and the Missions Chair, Ralph Afghan. They took us to seven different outreach ministries in their District: Two children’s homes, one built in an historic white suburb and one in the […] Continue reading → 
On Saturday, we boarded the ferry over to Robben Island. Brett Opalinski posted his reflections (below this post at http://southafricavision.tumblr.com) about the ferry ride over and walking through the prison and seeing the cells where the prisoners were housed. Just before we boarded the ferry back to Cape Town, I asked Stephanie Moore Hand if […] Continue reading → 
Yesterday I visited Soweto. In 1977, when I was in college, I went to hear a South African woman tell the story of the uprising and brutal repressive response of the South African police force shooting into a crowd of students who simply were protesting that they were being forced to learn in a language […] Continue reading → 
In a devotion this morning with the new Cabinet members of the Florida Conference, United Methodist Church, David Dodge shared a poem by Victoria Safford about Hope. I love great modern poetry and share with you what David shared with us: Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of hope– not the prudent […] Continue reading → 
I now work in Lakeland, a place I have visited all of my life. It was 50 miles down the road when I was growing up, but it was a town my family went to visit often. My great-grandfather was the chair of the Board of Florida Southern College, so our family got invited to […] Continue reading → 
We are continuing to share older videos we’ve had stored on our hard drive. Here is Ben singing Accidentally in Love, by Counting Crows, as part of the Mane Event concert in 2011. Continue reading → 
Starting today, we are posting a series of videos, we’ve collected over the years. On this anniversary of the landfall of hurricane Andrew in Miami, we are posting the sound of distant drumming a brief video from a drum-off between Leon and Lincoln from the Fall of 2011. Our son Zach is one of the […] Continue reading →