Trading Stories in PAMA

Our main project has been the school. Everyday we worked alongside guys like Sampson Nathan, Pascal, Earnest, and several others.

We all endured the heat and hard strenuous work. Please pray for these men because they will stay behind and finish the things we could not get to during our week there. These men are away from their families, sometimes for months, working at different projects.

When I asked how long it had been since Sampson had seen his family, very quickly, he said: "August 8." Wow. I realized it has been three months. Hopefully, after they finish in Pama and Seyere, they can go home for a while.

Each day we would sit around after work and just talk with the men. It was great to hear them share about their lives.

One conversation was especially interesting. Sampson said from their perspective, they hear about all the medical advances we have and all the technology and the Africans think we Americans should live forever but we don't, we die just the same as they do. We also had a cultural experiment, we showed the guys the movie "Zorro". I know, it is not a spiritual movie by any stretch, but it was fun to help the guys relax and watch them laugh and respond to different aspects of the movie.

Tim "Zorro" Harley.