We are at Chileshe, or as it is sometimes called, "RR" because it is near the railroad tracks. This is a significantly less remote area, and it is part of the way back to the mission place from where we camped for three days. We got off by 6:40 this morning. Our goal was 6:30 and we did great
considering the circumstances.


Last night we sent a group, traveling by Land Rover, to the hospital in Zimba to take a little girl who was suffering from several ailments. She needed oxygen, and we were unable to supply it, so we made the choice to send the girl and Dr. Allen Neese with her. Wil Pippen drove for them and they took along a Zambian nurse and a Chitonga guide to show them the way out of the bush. They did not return during the night, but we were able to call early this morning and find out that they had gone back to the mission station instead with due to a vehicle problem.


Christine Schwer just came by pulling a garden-cart full of Thermos jugs with coffee and tea. Our team tends to stay dehydrated. It is very dry here, and during the day at least, it is hot. As a result, we take around water, coffee and tea during the day to encourage everyone to drink.


Don Oldenburg is handing down a box off of a large truck to Stephenie Reed. She is dressed in a medical gown and a baseball cap. I assume she is working in wound-care.


Neal Coates is talking politics with the village headman. Neal teaches political science.


Jan Miller and Jimmy Welch are walking up and down the steps of a yellow bus taking the white paper from the patients and handing it into the pharmacy.


Kathy Moore and Susan Robin are treating a burn victim.


Mark Broadway is standing in the door-frame that is shorter than he is, motioning for a patient to come in.


Dr. David Moore is hunkered over a computer screen checking the inventory for eye-glasses.


A herd of a dozen goats is drinking out of a bucket at the edge of a concrete platform with a hand pump.


Don Pope is leading a group of 10 or so people across a field toward the wound-care area.


Adam Patterson is leading a man by the arm into a building from the line where he was standing.


Dick Flow is going to the pharmacy tent to get some supplies.


Sara Gregerson is giving a package of pills to a Zambian nurse.


Andy Higdon is digging in a trailer for something for the kitchen.


An elderly woman, led by a small child is slowly moving toward the end of a line that is at least 75 yards long. They are followed by a sickly dog with his ears flattened down and his head low.


A young mother has just sat down flat on the ground in the sun, and untied the chitenge she had wrapped around her child so that he can have some breakfast.


A young man with a pair of oxen in a yoke are pulling a crudely made drag behind. It is just two logs joined together by a few cross pieces.


Amy Walker is struggling to get pair of rubber gloves on her hands as she works in the Kitchen.


And the list goes on.


This may be one of our last opportunities to send a report. The schedule is difficult over the next two days. I will try to give more, including some photos if time, and our satellite phone permit.


We can actually get cell service here, as long as we stand on the top of one of the yellow busses. That of course limits the number of people who we would send to make a call ;-)


On behalf of our entire team, I want to say thank you to all of you who follow our progress, lift us up in prayer, and provide funds for medicine, Bibles, or transportation. You cannot fully know how much we appreciate you.