Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

This was another good week of work.  School is out so I have a lot of projects I need to complete before the kids come tear everything up again.  I guess I got job security that way. I will start off with my Saturday afternoon project after spending a very long morning responding to emails.  Things are really picking up here.  We have a group coming over in September of this year and already two groups starting the process to build teams for 2017.  The Full Dimension Ministry wish list is going well with lots of items already funded.  So I wanted to relax for a little while and I have had a picture of a bracelet on my computer for awhile now and had not figured out how they made it.  Fortunately I brought everything I needed to make the attempt.  I am using a bead made of cow bone as the button.  This caused two significant deviations from the picture I was seeing.  First the hole is so small I could only get the very thin yarn to ...

  Primary school kids at eyeglass distribution point-wanted picture with Twiggy the Twiga who you can barely see at the flagpole. The first time I was asked to do eyeglasses was on a medical mission trip to Panama in 2002.  I was mainly along for crowd control and hauling luggage and the fact I loved the thought of being in the jungle again.  I was prepared to help in many ways from cleaning things, carrying things, using my stern face that still seemed to instill obedience in those I could not talk to.  I was not prepared to do eyeglasses.  This was my second mission trip and first medical trip.  We had just spent our first night in the mountain jungles where trucks had trouble climbing the steep inclines to the point we often got out and pushed them up the mountain.  We were getting things set up to start to see patients when the leading doctor asked if I would take the suitcase full of eyeglasses and distribute them.  I have never bee...