Thursday / Friday Zimba

Common Termite hill

 Thursday morning we rose before the sun for quick breakfast, finish packing, and cleaning up before 7 a.m. departure.

Citrus, tomatoes and onions along the road

Samson came and we settled up. His wife came and
said her good-byes before heading to clinic, then Benson and Roy came. 

We chatted a bit about fruit trees, listening to God's voice, praying for each other, and about the large amount of land owned by the church in that area.

As we had traveled the dirt road in the dark, the hour long return trip to pavement passed by quickly, as we talked about missions and marveled at the huge termite mounds-some of them bigger than the average rural house in Haiti.

Church

We stopped in Choma to see the mission station there and meet the director of the medical work in Zambia.

Lameck directs the medical projects but also works with youth, the Jesus Film and has interest in farming.

He showed us his office and around the campus: a school with 225 students [3 year olds to 7th grade]; the hammer mill to grind corn, the church, a mission guest house, and housing currently being rented to a couple from the UK. 

School

Later in the day the wives of the Pastors would be meeting together. We saw their meal of goat being brought to the campus. 

Just over an hour down the road we reached Zimba. Just past the hospital and mission complexes, Samson delivered us to Overflow Guest house, run by Andrew and his wife Ashely, who we had met years ago when she was a Go-Net volunteer. 

We enjoyed talking, reading, and hanging out before bed.

Choma guest house

This morning George walked us to the hospital and joined us on a detailed tour of the hospital, eye clinic, a short visit to see the mission compound, and then a walk through the local market before we returned 3.5 hours later.

The hospital I think should be it's own blog. It is bigger than LaGonave hospital but the nursing school is younger/smaller. 

House where Dr. Emmett lived at Zimba

The yardman at the mission compound, Notice, pointed out the different houses and not only told us who was staying there now but which of them once housed Dr. Emmett, the IWU nurse students, and other GP teammates in the past.

The market reminded us a lot of those in rural Haiti. More fish than in Haiti... and fewer people. 

Cory noted healthy trees/plants on the walk including: moringa, chaya, cassava and corn.