I think 2025 has unfolded at Mach speed. Like you, I’m scrambling to keep up with school runs, meals, laundry, and work. But today, I had to stop running around and write reports. If this is your first time reading a newsletter from me (thanks to all the newbies), you might not know that I…

There are many individuals we have met over the years whose lives have become part of the heartbeat of the work of Africa & Beyond. One such individual is Coster Tambala. Coster became a Christian after finishing secondary school in 2010. He was visiting our church in Lilongwe one Sunday morning. At that time, the…

I used to think, like most people, I suppose, that a church gathering was an activity that Christians took part in on a Sunday. It meant going to a prescribed building on a prescribed day to take part in a prescribed activity. Once I became a Christian, those prescribed activities became like a prescribed antibiotic for…

Gatumba, Burundi lies on the Western side of Burundi close to DRC. Gatumba is part of rural Bujumbura whose population is estimated to be 500,000. Gatumba lies on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and has suffered greatly throughout the ethnic unrest in the 1990s-2000s. In 2004, there was a massacre at a refugee camp in…

I’ve been home for a week. Even though I’ve been working in Africa as a missionary with my husband since 1987 and have taken part in many outreaches of all kinds, I’m still deeply moved when returning home from an outreach. Our home is Africa, our hearts beat for Africa, and we say our lives…

In late 1991, we planted our first church in Bujumbura, Burundi. We had prayed for months over where we would plant our church. At first, we thought we might go to Kigali, Rwanda, or Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC). Something kept drawing us to Burundi. When the time came to move,…