There are approximately 700 Message churches in Kinshasa, DR Congo and a church of 600 is considered a small one. I looked up the definition of a mega-church and it’s one considered to be 2,000 or more. But yet, here in the 3rd world country of DR Congo a church of 2,000 is not unusual even amongst denominations. Driving down the street we saw this banner with Bro. Branham’s picture on it. I’m not sure of what it said since it was written in French, but part of it was “Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.”   We were taken to a lovely restaurant where we met up…

The traffic, people, and the way of driving in the DR Congo was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before and I found it quite fascinating. As I said, The “buses” were quite a bit different than what we have in the States. Almost like mini-vans but a bit bigger. And dented…       You’ll have to excuse the blurry shots I took since they’re snapped from the back seat of a moving vehicle. 🙂   In most of the buses, the people were quite squished. You could tell from the way they sat when passing by that they were trying to squeeze into as little space as possible so…

When we arrived in Kinshasa it was with an almost dreamlike feeling. Taxiing down the runway in a massive plane and looking out on a different world than the one we had left only a few days ago. There were a few people working alongside the runway on one side of it and in one area was sure that was small children I could see as we taxied by. Workers stopped to stare and watch as this mammoth Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrived giving the impression this is not a real common experience. The airport gives testimony to this as well. There are no other planes being unloaded and in fact,…

It is 7:30am am here at the Addis Ababa airport. Do you know what country I am in? If you guessed Ethiopia, you can reward yourself because that’s exactly right. I’d never heard of this city until I saw it on my flight connections. It is now Thursday and we’ve been traveling since Tuesday evening.  Only another 4 hour flight and we’ll have reached our destination. Yea! So far we’ve landed in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Vienna and Addis Ababa with our final stop being Kinshasa. But I have bad news to report. My. Luggage. Is. Lost. I can hardly believe it and am praying that it will show up in…

We arrived in the populous town of Shawano, Wisconsin (home to 9,189 persons). We came here for the purpose of seeing one of our Castle Keeper girls marry the love of her life. You may remember Anna from the video that I made of her a few months ago when she became engaged, recapsulating her visit to Arizona for the Castle Keeper end-of-the-year party. The girls got to see Anna for a short visit the night before she was married.   The day of the wedding shone bright and clear. No rain and the weather had warmed up to a very pleasant temperature. If you find me remarking on the…