Coming Blogs and Books

Today (Friday) is a day of rest and laundry. We've been on the move since Sunday. I'm preparing a three part blog series to catch everyone up on the work.

Part 1 will be a quick tutorial on our missiology, what we do and the thinking behind it.
Part 2 will be a short telling of the outcomes of the work in Mulongo from last year's adventure.
Part 3 will be about the work in Tenke, especially how we ended up doing so many baptisms.

On top of that, I realize that you receive so little detail of the adventures through Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. I've been writing a book on last year's adventure patterned after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It is a travel log interrupted by reflections on missionary work in the Congo. The working title is "The Last Missionary."

As soon as I send that book off to the publisher, I'll get started on the record of this year's adventure, patterned on The Heart of Darkness. As in Conrad's novella, our team will be traveling by river boat down the Congo River to find someone, in our case it is Pastor Jacqueline Ngoy at Kabalo.

Of course, there should be a third book for it to be a trilogy, so the third book should be patterned after War and Peace. Maybe not as long, but telling the stories of several families through times of war and peace in eastern Congo.

Bob
Tenke