One Year Later

I've been watching this video today, thinking about Mhlosheni. 

It's been a year and a day since we took off for Africa, eight ordinary suburban folk trying to to reach out and share our lives with the people we'd adopted and who'd adopted us in return. It's hard to remember what I was thinking on the day-long plane ride... I wonder if any of my fellow travellers remember their thoughts? 

Now we're readying another group. The next team will be flying off to Africa in June, carrying the hopes, prayers, and wishes of our entire congregation. They'll forge new relationships, and strengthen existing ones. 

And so the Song of Africa goes on and on and on... in our hearts and in our bones.