Trauma Recovery Work in the DRC and Rwanda
Image via Wikipedia It is official. Diane Langberg and I have our tickets for our upcoming trip to the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda where we will be interacting with trauma victims, pastors (who are also...
View ArticleWhen some help isn’t better than none
When is some help worse than none? When it creates more problems than might have been there without it. While that is easy to say, determining the line between helpful and harmful is less clear. If...
View ArticleTrauma Recovery Work in Africa: Itinerary
Those of you interested in trauma recovery work can feel free to pray through our upcoming trip and itinerary (as well as for our families!). Our team (Diane Langberg, Carol King, Josh Straub, Baraka...
View ArticleDRC/Rwanda Trip: October 13, 2011
Up by 5:30am, a nice breakfast (omelet, Nescafe, fresh avocado half, and bread with Nutella), and then a trip to the airport to catch another MAF flight hop south to Beni (3 hour stop) and then on to...
View ArticleDRC/Rwanda Trip: October 14, 2011
Day 4: A breakfast of coffee, fruit and egg and we’re off visiting rape victims and those who help them today. First stop is the DOCS hospital (Doctors on Call for Service) run by a gynecologist, Dr....
View ArticlePray for the Congo (DRC) this week
Image via Wikipedia Today, November 28, 2011, Congolese have been voting in presidential and parliament elections. For those of you who followed my DRC/Rwanda trip posts, I encourage you to lift up...
View ArticlePraying for Goma
Last year I had the privilege of touring Goma (search Congo 0r Goma or DRC in my search engine above) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is a city on the northern edge of Lake Kivu and...
View ArticleUpdate on the Complexities of Goma, DRC…And Why You Should Care
Followers of this blog will know that I have been to Eastern Congo and am passionate about the people there. You also know that there is a rather ugly and complex struggle for power in that region....
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