For those curious about the daily life of a missionary wife in Africa, interspersed with the occasional tale of adventure…. and for those willing to wait…… while posts are sometimes written by candlelight (by necessity) and on paper (when my computer is out) then transfered to wordpress later when internet becomes available (sometimes much later).
Future posts may concern the following:
The adventures of a 2 1/2 year old Farangi
Musings of Motherhood
Miracle Stories
Recipes (beware: everything is made from scratch)
Daily life at Gimbie Seventh-day Adventist Hospital- triumphs, frustrations, dilemmas, local wisdom, mortal dramas, joys and sorrows.
Dear Trudy,
My wife Morgan and I will be visiting Gimbie some time in the first week in June. We are leaving for Ethiopia on May 23. Can we bring you anything? Someone from Paradise church has given me a bunch of incontinence pads for the hospital, but if you need/want anything else let me know. Just ask and I’ll see what I can do for you.
Andy Chinnock
St. Helena, CA
By: Andy Chinnock on May 10, 2009
at 7:45 pm
Oh, Trudy, I was so happy to find your blogs!! And to see Jonah’s sweet little face! I miss you guys so much! Life has been – like a rat-race, since we left Ethiopia! We had about 6 weeks to get ready for a health seminar in HI! I had a lot of typing to do for Gaylen, and of course the computer didn’t cooperate! We were on a working vacation for 4 weeks in Hawaii. Our health seminar was for two week-ends. We were staying on the school compound, and it rained at least 5 times every day during the two weeks we were there. I think Satan was smiling, because the senior class from Oklahoma Academy were coming with “Messiah’s Mansion” – a life size replica of the sanctuary that God instructed Moses to build. It was awesome! The students themselves, gave presentation tours, from 1 – 7 p.m. daily for a week! The school is really a mission school. There is no pavement of any kind, so we went from’red Gimbie dirt’ to ‘red Kahili mud’. The setting for the “Messiah’s Mansion” was at the foot of a mountain. The other side of the mountain is the wettest spot on planet earth! However, it was unusual to get so much rain where we were! But God blessed in a marvelous way! Over 700 people came for the tours. Those students were among the happiest and most dedicated young people! They knew everything about the sanctuary, and answered the questions asked, just as though they had degrees from the seminary! It was so rewarding! Each presentation was 75 minutes long! Groups came from the churches on the island. Helicopter tours are big there, and one of the pilots strongly recommended that the people on his tours should go see this awesome sight!
We arrived home on our grandson’s 5th birthday! We are still getting caught up! We have resumed our Bible studies with the couple we had been studying with. We invited them to some evangelistic meetings in Topsham shortly before we left for HI, and he attended most of them, but since they have no children, their little dog is their ‘child’, and he had surgery, so she stayed home with him. The meetings were over just after we left, and they have both been going to church in Topsham ever since. They have been following a plant based diet! That is one area we have never talked about! I’m so happy! She is in her forties, and he, probably 50’s.
Gaylen has been busy doing sermons in the churches in our conference, and doing health lectures at the hospital – and I did a demo last week at a Lifestyle Improvement program at the hospital. So we are busy! Today it is bright and sunny, the grass is so green, and the leaves on the trees are just coming out! Spring is so beautiful! We walk every morning, and look for birds, and I am overwhelmed at what Heaven will be like! And … I don’t believe we will be in this world much longer – things are shaping up at a fast pace it seems!
We think of you daily, and pray for ‘Mark, Trudy, and Jonah’ by name! We are so blessed to have had the privilege of knowing you, and getting acquainted! We most likely, depending on the surgeon situation, will come back for a short time. I don’t know if it will be this year or next, but we would welcome seeing everyone.
God bless you all! You are loved!
Kitty
By: Kitty on May 19, 2009
at 4:24 pm