burundi: warm and welcoming
first and foremost, the most critical and important part of burundi is pictured below...
yes, amstel. only 400 burundi francs (about kshs. 25 or US$.30). or if you like, there is the 800ml bottle. 'grande'.
now thats off my chest, i can talk about the rest of burundi....
we are here in bujumbura, burundi for 3 weeks helping out at the bethel. its quite exciting to meet old friends again. last time i was here, the country was in the middle of a civil war, and even the guy who asked for my yellow fever card had a huge gun, but this time things are much more peaceful. no gunshots at night, no mortars landing on the city, no soldiers everywhere. bonus.
this past weekend we went for a drive with leonard and nancy, long time missionaries who used to be in kenya (and used to be my overseer:). where to? congo! yes, bujumbura is about 20km from the congo border. so we went for a quick trip to the border - in the picture the mountains in the background are actually in congo.
earlier on the same day we had gone to a curio shop - most of their stuff is from congo and the have a lot of rather scary masks in some dark and spooky shops...
bujumbura lies on lake tanganyika, apparently the deepest lake in africa. 2nd deepest in the world - average depth of 1/2 a km and deepest of about 1.5km. wow.
people in burundi are incredibly responsive to the truth - there are about 8,000 publishers, up from 3,000 in 2003. the brothers here are very zealous, in spite of the hardship and problems they have seen. most of them have had to flee for their lives at one time or another, but they are cheerful and happy.
here is a common mode of transport...
these are pictures of some of the children of burundi:
yes, amstel. only 400 burundi francs (about kshs. 25 or US$.30). or if you like, there is the 800ml bottle. 'grande'.
now thats off my chest, i can talk about the rest of burundi....
we are here in bujumbura, burundi for 3 weeks helping out at the bethel. its quite exciting to meet old friends again. last time i was here, the country was in the middle of a civil war, and even the guy who asked for my yellow fever card had a huge gun, but this time things are much more peaceful. no gunshots at night, no mortars landing on the city, no soldiers everywhere. bonus.
this past weekend we went for a drive with leonard and nancy, long time missionaries who used to be in kenya (and used to be my overseer:). where to? congo! yes, bujumbura is about 20km from the congo border. so we went for a quick trip to the border - in the picture the mountains in the background are actually in congo.
earlier on the same day we had gone to a curio shop - most of their stuff is from congo and the have a lot of rather scary masks in some dark and spooky shops...
bujumbura lies on lake tanganyika, apparently the deepest lake in africa. 2nd deepest in the world - average depth of 1/2 a km and deepest of about 1.5km. wow.
people in burundi are incredibly responsive to the truth - there are about 8,000 publishers, up from 3,000 in 2003. the brothers here are very zealous, in spite of the hardship and problems they have seen. most of them have had to flee for their lives at one time or another, but they are cheerful and happy.
here is a common mode of transport...
these are pictures of some of the children of burundi:
