Getting to Overland Missions Rapid 14 base camp in Livingstone, Zambia

8-25-09 (Tue):

Took off from Atlanta airport and arrived in Johannesburg (JNB), South Africa (15.5 hrs later) at 5:30pm Joberg time. It seems everyone who lives there or has been there calls it Joberg. Due to the time change (Joberg being 6hrs ahead of CST) and the duration of the flight, we never had a Wednesday.

Stayed all night in the airport. We decided it was better to stay behind and help out a fellow missionary who was on our flight, than to wait any longer on our driver to the backpacking lodge.

8-27-09 (Thur):

We took off for Livingstone (LVI) around 10:40am and arrived at 12:45pm. After paying for our Visas and claiming our luggage we were met by Overland Missions staff; Dan, Rachel, and Candi. We climbed aboard one of the 4x4 trucks that OM uses for epxeditions/village ministries, stopped in the city of Livingstone for some base camp supplies, exchange our money, and grab a late lunch. After about a 25 minute ride we finally arrived at our new home for the next 3 months: Overland Missions Rapid 14 Base. The base camp is situated above Rapid #14 on the Zambezi River. We spent the rest of the day touring the 30+ acre camp, unpacking our things, and trying to get over our jetlag.

La Represa, DR preschool (July 25 - Aug 1, 2009)

Old preschool (March 2009).

Start of new preschool (July 2009).

A small team from New Vision will be returning in October and I know they will have plenty of work to do.

New Vision Baptist Church (Murfreesboro, TN) mission team.

My buddie Ronald. We met on my first trip to La Represa back in October 2008. He was one of several local teens who were baptised in the pool at our base camp.

Mission trip: Crow Agency, Montana.

For 2 weeks (June 27 - July 11, 2009), I volunteered as an Assistant Mission Leader for World Servants in Crow Agency, Montana. If you are like I was, you might be thinking to yourself where that is. Crow Agency is located in the south central part of Montana, within the Crow Indian Reservation, and less than three miles from Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.

If you are interested in learning a little more about the Crow check out this site http://www.crowtribe.com/.




Our base camp was at the Spirit of Life Foursquare Church in Crow Agency. Pastor Kenneth Pretty-on-Top and his congregation are amazing. While we were there they were in the process of constructing a new worship center. I hope to make it back someday and attend a service in the new building.

We facilitated church teams from Florida, Virginia, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Michigan just to name a few. Thanks to Vern and his church team for putting together this short video of some of the projects and activities they did, all for the glory of the Lord.


All of the pictures I took on this trip and from past mission trips can be found under my links section, labeled accordingly..."My pictures".