Peace and Pollution

posted: 30 Mar 2009 comments: 2category:

Moving on the river in a noisy tin bath of a boat makes me aware of the contrast between nature's engineering and our man-made engineering. A fish swims silently and graceful in the water while our boat moves like an angry noisy monster, cumbersomely up river. You know, I'm thinking to myself what I would give just to feel the peace and serenity of my surroundings. But the boat droans on. Ideas turn over in my head like cash in a bank. If only we could keep in...
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Lessons on the River

posted: 30 Mar 2009 comments: 2category:

You know what before I knew it I was part of the Ben Hur races. There's something about motor bikes that brings out the boy racer even among the most holy of us. My travelling companion Paul reveals to me that he just loves riding these ponies. Before long I'm standing on the. Bank of the Atya River. We're off to Peurto Allegria. Gene the boys house father in the distance he is preparing the alluminium boat in which we will take the forty minute ride. Paul seems very...
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Chariots in the Jungle

posted: 29 Mar 2009 comments: 1category:

I'm up early this morning to see if I can tune into the service being streamed out live from St Andrew's Bo'ness.The truth is I can't sleep, the continual drone of motor bike engines become a lulla bye giving you false hope of sleep, only to find the backfire of a motor bike wakens you up thinking was that a gun? I make my way down stairs  to the computer in the reception area. However I find I  have  to face the disappointment that I'm in the Jungle city of...
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Plane Thinking

posted: 28 Mar 2009 comments: 4category:

I had breakfast with Paul Clark the Director of Union Biblica. He is a commanding figure even at the age of seventy five. His white hair neatly combed in place he looks cool. I think he probably has always been cool. We started a conversation about multi tasking. Paul believes that woman can do this better than men. We then moved to the idea of thinking. Marty his wife joins in. "Men are like waffles when they think, as for women, well we're spaghetti." Well I was...
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Meet the Chairman of the Board

posted: 27 Mar 2009 comments: 2category:

The first thing you notice when you get off the plane in Lima is the heat. It must have been at least 75 degrees. There was a smell of stale fish in the air and the traffic horns were noisy. This is a city of some eleven million people stretched out over a desert coastal strip surrounded by huge sand dunes. I'm told it hasn't really rained here since the 1970s. This is a city of many contrasts. I had lunch in a coastal restaurant called the Costa Verde. It was really...
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On the journey.

posted: 25 Mar 2009 comments: 1category:

Well in a few hours I'll be off on the flight to Peru. thanks for your comment Gordon. I well remember your visit to AH1 that was a day and a half. You were overcome with sun stroke and  I felt so sorry for you. Your a big guy and you looked as white as a sheet. we've had some exciting experiences in the Amazon.  travelling back in the dark to Iquitos is no joke. Especially when your passengers aren't 100%.  It can be dangerous because of the material that might...
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The Road to Service

posted: 23 Mar 2009 comments: 1category:

We here I am once again getting ready to do the long haul across the Atlantic to South America.  I'll be visiting Peru for the next nine days. Catching up with our partners SUPeru and meeting the new Chairman of their board. Meanwhile I'm just back from a Kirk Session meeting tonight.We talked about a lot of things. I think there is a great frustration that we can't get the accommodation we need right now. Its been the same old story for years. We see growth, new...
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