Road to Rwanda---Bread Machines and Friends

  Hahaha. This is a write up by a friend in Papua, Indonesia, Melinda McDonald Whited . I am the friend mentioned who used her bread machine. The funny part is I had used about one machine a few times before I used this one, and have not used one since! It was just a time the Lord used both of us to mutually bless each other. It thrills me that I could help someone like this....I am NOT a cook. (This is a mother of 7 kids. I taught 2 of them during my time at HIS in Sentani, Indonesia.) Some things I finally got around to making today… 3 kilos (6.6 pounds) of trail mix Homemade wheat bread Neither are difficult. The hardest part is having the ingredients on hand. Most of the ingredients are purchased from specialty retailers. I bought them this week. Trail mix: cashews, peanuts, walnuts, dried cranberries, and raisins. I roasted all the nuts in the oven (3 separate batches because some roast faster than others). The homemade bread feels like cheating because I use a bread ma...

Road to Rwanda---The Journey of Some Bibles

  Road to Rwanda----The Journey of Some Bibles   We arrived back in Rwanda last night at 10 p.m. after being gone to the US on Christmas break for 3 weeks.   It was a good and fulfilling and restful vacation, but that is often almost erased by the long, long, long trip back to Africa.   There are also all the complications that accompany such a trip. Does Satan work overtime to just pester us while we are packing etc.?   Especially when that packing involves bringing Bibles to gift to friends and acquaintances in Rwanda? Rick has begged Bibles off many people during this 3 weeks at home.   Reid Lehman, the former CEO of Miracle Hill Ministries, and friend of over 50 years, visited with us as we were preparing to share at Kathy St. Peters Jenkins church, Shady Grove Baptist, on Sunday night.   He immediately ordered 10 Bibles on Amazon to be delivered to Peter’s house before our leaving at 4 a.m. on Thursday. We waited on Tuesday when the books we...