It’s late in our first week in Malawi. In fact, it’s our weekend in between and we are away at safari. We opted to do Safari in the...

Water buffalo on safari in Uganda Our Uganda portion of the trip came to an end on Friday the 25th of July. We completed our time as a...

It is Sunday in Uganda (July 20) and we spent the morning in church worshiping Ugandan style. This means basically we had two services...

It is Friday in Uganda. We have had an incredibly busy week. Some of our team have been working on a paving project on the COTN campus,...

We have returned to Africa! This year we have added a two week stop in Lira, Uganda before going on to our beloved Malawi. Our team left...

We have been in Malawi for three days, and wow what a start. Monday was our cultural immersion day. This is a day of acclimation and...

Greetings friends! Preparations are well underway for our next trip to Malawi. We will. be in country from August 2nd-18th. We'll be...

After we retuned from Safari, it felt like a race to the finish line. Friday morning we had one more clinic. On COTN property is...

Well, its 4am and I’m awake again…this time in the U.S. We are home. My body clock hasn’t quite figured that out yet….So let me try and...

I write this morning from my seat on a small bus, headed to safari. We were up before the sun to drive 5 hours south to enjoy some R&R as...

It is Sunday evening and we are trying to rest. It has been a full three days since I was last able to write an update. The team is...

I want to keep you all updated on the stories of our trip, but I’d also like to share some of the lessons along the way. Here are a few…...

Today (Wednesday) we got a small start on our clinic operations. We began the morning with a training for all those who are going to be...

We have finished our first full day in Malawi. I’ll start by saying that 9 of the 12 bags arrived. The three still missing started in...

It seems the time change of travel has hit me, and I am awake at 4am in Malawi. Wide awake! So I have quietly slipped out of bed and into...

As we begin our trip, I should probably introduce our 2022 team. I've already introduced myself, the one “non-medical” member of our...

It’s time….finally. The supplies are gathered, the bags are packed, and we leave Saturday. It has felt like forever waiting for this day,...

When we originally began planning to go to Africa, we were joining a team going to Sierra Leone. When plans changed that year, we were...

In 2013 our daughter was 17 years old and had been begging us to let her go to Africa on a mission's trip. As we began to look at how to...