From the category archives:

South Africa

Travelling Tuesday: The Penguins at Betty’s Bay

You know about the penguins that got lost at sea one day and ended up settling in South Africa right? Well, I don’t think that’s the real story, but you might know the African penguin by its former, and slightly unfortunate name, the Jackass Penguin. These adorable little fellas inherited the aforementioned moniker because of [...]

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My Man Without a Country

Hero Hubs was away from Mama Africa for close to twelve years before we settled down here in the Cape exactly a year ago today. While I’ve worked through occasional bouts of culture shock, it has been interesting to simultaneously observe many instances of re-entry shock for him. He has returned to the country he [...]

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Wholehearted :: A Music Video

Our church has an awesome band. And I know everybody thinks that if their church has a guitar, an amp, and somebody with messy hair or deep v syndrome hitting the stage on Sunday mornings with something other than 4 choruses written in the late 80s, they’ve got a killer band. But seriously, our church [...]

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Travelling Tuesday: Knysna, South Africa

Happy Tuesday, guys and gals! We are back on the part of the map that says Gordon’s Bay, and I’m hoping a momentary gush of bandwidth will carry this Travelling Tuesday to its intended URL destination — our internet’s not doing so well today. The travels with my Mama in tow did not disappoint when [...]

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Free for All Friday, Featuring the Konigsmarks

Hello again from the road! We’re enjoying our travelling ways these days, Mama D is enjoying her first taste of Africa, and the Bear is just being an all-around superstar, no matter where his head hits the pillow at night! Here’s the proof: Can you believe he put that Wonder Pet Tuck the Turtle on [...]

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Untweeted Tweets from Last Week’s Travel

Are you on Twitter? It’s okay if you’re not, I’m just asking. In case you need an explanation, on Twitter you basically share news in 140 characters (not words) or less with anyone who is “following” you. You use hashtags “#” if you’re speaking about a particular subject that you think other people are likely [...]

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Every Person Has a Story :: It’s Not About The Shoes

Last week HH and I were sitting in a meeting with volunteers and staff from a ministry we’ve been partnering with here in the Western Cape called Living Hope. A friend of ours is helping us evaluate our ministry’s effectiveness, and we were asking about the volunteers’ and staff’s experiences of the Shoes of Hope [...]

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Travelling Tuesday: Our New Home

Well guys, the travels take you to the lovely Gordon’s Bay again this week! I am excited to share photos with you from our new place. Forgive me that the pictures are of our place, still empty. But if I take pictures of its current state, you’ll see that we’re living amidst boxes and using [...]

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SFSA is the Do It For Others Project by We Are THAT Family this month…Woot!

Hi guys and gals! I’m so excited to share some awesome news with you! Kristen of We Are THAT Family has chosen to make a shoe drive for Samaritan’s Feet South Africa the Back to School Do It For Others Project this month. She will be collecting new shoes back in the beautiful big state [...]

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What 15,000 Pairs of Shoes Looks Like

A few weeks ago, Hero Hubs spent a long and lunchless day in a sugar warehouse. Working through extreme tiredness, a busy and slightly stressful season, and a nice wee bout of Bronchitis, he was sorting shoes for Samaritan’s Feet South Africa’s Shoes of Hope distributions, which would be happening during the World Cup. The [...]