Saturday July 9

We experienced an emergency last night. Johnny Robinson either suffered a siezure and fell and hit his head on the side of a truck, or as a result of hitting his head on the truck suffered a siezure.

We contacted Med-Ex, our evacuation insurance carrier by satellite phone and gave them our GPS coordinates in hopes that they would come in a helicoptor to pick him up. Instead we had to drive him out of the Bush to an airport. We chose Livingstone, because the Choma air strip does not have landing lights. As it turns out, it was daylight before the plane could arrive anyway.

He was unconsious when he left and not responding to even deep pain, but we were able to get a report back from Livingstone that he had awakened and was in more stable condition.

He arrived in Joberg South Africa around noon and was taken to a local hospital. The emergency room was just over 15 hours away from us. This really punctuates the need for medical care in Zambia.

We have contacted Hillcrest Church of Christ, Johnny's home congregation and they may be able to provide a more up to date condition report regarding Johnny. Cindy, Johnny's wife and Cam Hurst accompanied him to South Africa.

We will provide more information as we have it.

Also, on a more mundane note, those on our team with AT&T calling cards have not been successfull at making them work. So if you are expecting a call from a loved one, it may not come. The rest of the team appears to be in find physical condition.

This was hastily written, but I will try to get more information out later.