Dear Friends,
Mary Lou and I have safely made it back to St. Louis. We had a safe trip home. Mary Lou was able to sleep a lot and I was able to watch 8 movies. We are so grateful for your prayers and concerns. Thank you for reading our e-mails and keeping us in your thoughts. We have Read More
29, July 2009 African update (via poor phone connection to Uganda)
Greeting from Kampala! We are happy to know that Heidi arrived home safely in New York City last night. It was marvelous having her with us. We look forward to seeing the DVD she is putting together for the Cow Project. Read More
Monday morning, 7/27/09
Dear Friends,
Today we leave Masaka, the site of our filming of the cow project and our meeting with many new friends. It has been a rich and joy filled time of new learning. Last night, we had our wrap up with the Bishop and a dinner party complete with a Read More
Update of July 23, 2009
Bishop for the day! That’s right. I had the honor of taking Bishop John Baptist’s place and “handing over” a heifer cow to a newly trained family today. It was part of a beautiful community celebrating the beginning of another family’s journey out of Read More
African Update 21 July 2009
Dear friends,
We are in Uganda for several days now. It is green compared to Kenya. Here are some highlights: *Heidi (Barb’s cousin who did the first video) arrived from New York and has already begun the scoping out of the video we are producing. *The Read More
18 July, 2009, Saturday Phone call to Barb from Toni
The computers are down. Sorry we haven’t e-mailed. We leave for Uganda on Sunday. We are going to meet Heidi, Barb’s cousin, who will be doing the DVD on the Ugandan cow project. Today, Saturday, we met Sr. Janet Read More
July 16, 2009
Dear Friends,
The computer is very slow today, but I will try to get a quick message to you. Yesterday, we went to the north of Read More
July 9 – 11 from Toni’s perspective
(They have not been able to get to working computers, so this is what Toni told Sr. Barbara when Toni called Barb Saturday at 3 PM St. Louis time.)
Thursday’s celebration (that Mary Lou wrote about in the previous e-mail):
There Read More
6 July 09, Monday Update from Toni:
Good day. We started the day by visiting Kibera slum and talking to our good friend Andrew Otieno, MD, who is the branch manager. Many wonderful changes have happened since I visited last year. There are 50,000 members now, which reflects an increase Read More
Toni and Mary Lou begin their journey today. Their plane leaves Lambert at 11am. They will be meeting CJ in Atlanta. They will be traveling approximately 40 hours till they reach their destination, Nairobi, Kenya!
Dear Companions of the Spirit,
Sr. Toni is away at her religious Read More
