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.

Our 8th Anniversary Fishing Trip

This is Peter with his 4.5kg, 30in "corvina" in Portuguese, not sure of exact name in English but is some kind of sea trout!

This is Shelley with her 5kg, 35.5in Tuna!

Meghan, our niece also caught fish - plenty big for her!

The tuna steaks!

Meghan cleaning her catch!


As always beautiful sunsets!!

Mundindi Special Report!

Special Report on Project Mundindi

Greetings from windy, dusty southwestern Angola! We are ready for the rains to come and it seems it could be any day now! The Jacaranda trees have been in bloom for a few weeks now and the old timers say that the blooms foretell of the coming rains! Of course, history is in their favor too as generally it starts raining in late September, or early October!

We are getting well under way with the foundational steps of our community health project in the area surrounding the Evangelical Medical Center of Lubango(CEML).
We have limited ourselves to just one “small” community, called Campa, - 41 houses and about 325 people – to begin with and then we will repeat the same steps in other communities including the actual community called Mundindi. There are 5-6 communities all within 5 km’s from the hospital, all anxious to have us come and work with them! So far we have just done an age and gender population survey of 100 percent of the houses in the Campa community and today we started with the actual public health survey. We plan to randomly select and survey about 30% of each community’s population to get our baseline data prior to starting our interventions! Pray for us as we also are ambassadors for Christ in these communities and want His Love to Shine to all these people more than anything else! Pray our team would work well together and show love to one another! Below are some pictures -

Maria and her youngest child
Angelina - expecting her second and painting the community doors!
The Team!

Surveying! Hoping to have an impact on these young lives!