The Buy a Brick Campaign!!

Probably most of you who have seen or spoken to us know that we are burdened with the need to raise funds to build medical staff housing at the CEML(the Evangelical Medical Center where we are based from in Angola). The CEML is a busy full-scale hospital that currently has only one fulltime physician. We get help from many short-term MD's and students, but no one has come fulltime to stay for more than a month! Our one fulltime physician has been uncomplaining and tireless in his efforts to keep the hospital running, but...... we NEED more fulltime physicians! He will run out of gas eventually! BUT we have a catch twenty-two here in that if we were to get more physicians - we have nowhere to house them!! So what we really need is more housing and to borrow a famous line from Kevin Costner, if we "build it they will come"!

So we are part of Advancing the Gospel in Angola's "Buy a Brick, Build a Home, Bring more Doctors to Angola" Campaign. If you would like to know more about this please contact us at the above email or phone or visit our website by clicking on the hopeforangola link above!

This is a picture of the CEML campus

This is the outpatient dept. with pt's waiting to be seen.

This is a photo of typical construction in Angola

Below is a "good" quality home in Lubango - still no electricity or consistent water and would rent for $1000 per month. Not really appropriate housing for the long haul!!

Please won't you consider being a part of the cure for the many helpless and needy folk who live in Angola with next to no healthcare by contributing to this building fund and allowing us to provide adequate housing for those who feel called to help out by donating their personal skills and life! Click on the link to Hopeforangola and join the team!!(fully tax deductible)

Psalm 127: 1 "Unless the Lord builds the house, it's builder's labor in vain."

Peter's waste-oil heater for a brick kiln project

Peter has been spending his days here in Greensboro working on a waste-oil burning heater that he plans to use to heat a brick kiln in Angola. In Angola, they dump waste engine oil on the ground and contaminate the environment, and trees for fire wood are scarce due to the enormous population overload around the cities, so using used motor oil as the fuel for a kiln will be a benefit all around!

He's had it burning with great gusto using cardboard as a wick - now he is working on making a more permanent wick so that the heater will burn for a long time without needing constant tending!

Our quick trip to Capetown! August 16-20

After the reunion week, we traveled Peter and I traveled to Capetown with Mom and Dad as they wanted to visit some longtime friends, Paul and Elfreida Bremer. Uncle Paul is on the far left and Auntie Elf is on the far right in the photo below. Some of these photos are courtesy of Ilse their daughter, with whom Peter and I stayed.
Uncle Paul and Auntie Elf again!
The Bremer's showed us all around Capetown and one morning we had an outing to the National Botanical Gardens - Kirstenbosch. Below is a Bird of Paradise.
This is a Rocket Pincushion(a variety of Protea)
This is the King Protea!
Lion's Head, Capetown
Table Mountain - we were blessed with wonderful warm and clear days while we were there!
We even saw a Wright Whale in Hout Bay! Very cool!

Family Reunion(The Place) - August 2008

We had a wonderful time at a timeshare resort in the Drakensburg, South Africa, called Castleburn Farm, near Underburg. We hiked, fished, paddled, rode horseback, spa'd and fellowshipped. A good time was had by all!

One of the day trips was a drive up the Sani Pass - the highest road in Africa!

All true African adventures have end with a unbelievable sunset!

Family Reunion(The People) - August 2008

August 8-15, 2008 we had a Foster Family Reunion to celebrate the 60th Wedding Anniversary of our parents Bob and Belva Foster, at Castleburn Farm, Underburg, SA

Back row: Peter, Shelley, Rob, Rebecca, Olivia, Ari, Heather, Jeffrey, Stirling, Donna, Tonya, Daniel, Sara, Helena, Cara, Stuart, Luke.

Mid row: Peggy, Stephen, Grandma, Meghan, Grandpa, Sharon, Sheila, Sindia

Sitting on grass: Lucas, Gabriel

All the siblings present at the Reunion.

From left to right: Stephen, Sharon, Sheila, Stuart, Stirling, Shelley

Stephen and Peggy and all their family that was present at the Reunion.

Back row: Stephen, Peggy, Ari, Olivia, Rebecca, Rob, Heather

Front row: Lucas, Grandma, Grandpa, Gabriel

Sharon and Tonya

Sheila's Family:

Helena, Sheila, Daniel, Sara

Stuart's Family:

Luke, Sindia, Stuart, Cara

Stirling's Family:

Stirling, Jeffrey, Meghan, Donna

Peter and Shelley

The firstborns of three generations:

Stephen, Tonya and Lucas

The grandchildren present:

Cara, Heather, Tonya, Helena, Rebecca, Sara, Rob, Jeffrey

Luke, Grandma, Meghan, Grandpa, Daniel

The great-grandkids:

Lucas, Grandma, Gabriel, Grandpa, Olivia

Furlough in US - May to July 2008

Well this is a long overdue posting! We arrived in the US for a three months furlough in May to be able to attend Jasper's graduation from UNC! It was a cold and rainy day, but we were full of pride and joy over her accomplishments!

During the month of June we drove over 3500 miles visiting friends and family from Louisiana to Michigan before getting home.

This is Jennifer Moore and son Caeden and daughter Maren, in Charlotte, NC.

From left to right:Shelley, Peter, Linda, Eric, Lloyd, and Faie - two of Peter's brothers and their wives, in Napoleonville, Louisiana.

From left to right: Buster, Peter, Lloyd, Faie, Angela - at a bayouside steak house in Raceland, Louisiana

Ben, a nephew and fishing guide extraordinaire! We caught 32 Bass and 38 brim etc in Bayou Black, Louisiana

Friend and AGA board member, Dale Frost in Holland, Michigan.

With friends Doug and Sue Redman in Surry, Virginia.