August 8

To Harare.. It was a very early morning wake up call 3:30 am we took off to the airport in Nairobi at 4:45am. When we arrived we found that Kenya airlines had a change in our flight...it wasn't going to be a direct flight. We actually flew over Harare and landed in South Africa at Gaborone (capital of Botswana) We were there only a short time and then took off again to Harare. Time change now 6 hours difference. Rev. Edward Matuvhunye, The president of the UCC for Zimabawei met us. We went to his office and met some regional conference staff and his sec't. And accountant. Behind the conference office there was a new church start. Structure was tent like, back wall concrete, dirt floor, benches
One year as a church with 100 members. Pastor Thomas is very proud. There are a hundred UCC churches and they are growing as a UCC presence throughout Zimbabwe.
We then went to his parsonage ( for conference ministers) and greeted by his family for lunch. We had maize, greens, and chicken bits. Afterwards we had a couple hour rest at the guest house. A guest house is like a lower income hotel. Rev. Edward pick us up for dinner and his wife prepared us rice, potatoes, liver and hot tea.