Global Ministries and Disciples Home Missions sponsored an Ubuntu Church in Transformation trip to South Africa and Angola from September 5-14. Team members agreed to do daily journaling. Click below to read their journal entries.
September 5
Travel to New York, Orientation, Travel to South Africa
Journalist: Rev Eugene James
September 6
Arrival in Johannesburg, South Africa
Evening Devotions
Journalist: Rev Eugene James
September 7
Visit Apartheid Museum ; Lunch at Wandies in SOWETO
SOWETO Tour: Mandela House, Hector Peterson Museum, Regina Mondi Church, and low income housing settlement.
Journalist: Rev Ed Morris
September 8
Sharing and discussion with pastors of the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa ; Shop at a Church sponsored Craft Market ; Barbeque lunch in SOWETO ;Visit a church sponsored children’s after school program; an evening of relaxation at Moyo’s dinner club
Journalist : Rev Denise Bell
September 9
Travel to Luanda, Angola
Informal sharing with church leaders of the Evangelical Congregational Church of Angola
Journalist: Rev. Jane Lawrence
September 10
Worship at local church in Luanda; Sharing and discussion with local pastors
Journalist: Rev Carolyn Reed
September 11
Travel by aircraft to rural Province (7 members of delegation)
Visit with Angola Christian Council of Churches (2 members)
Journalists: Rev David Vargas (meeting with Council of Churches)
Rev H. Lee Parker (trip to province)
September 12
Return travel to South Africa; final reflections and debriefing
Journalist: Rev Doug Pfeiffer
Journalist: Rev Sandra Gourdet
September 13
Shopping, packing and travel home
Journalist: Rev Sandra Gourdet
