Category: In Living Color

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Going to Prison

  • The Johannesburg Prison, colloquially known in a tongue-in-cheek way as "Sun City," from the outside.
  • A cell block seen from the drive up to the prison. From this point forward, we carried only our clothes, glasses, and God's Word.
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Visit to the Eastern Cape

  • Our plan for Bible distribution.
  • Looking out over the next village to visit, after getting the car unstuck with the help of some friendly neighbors.
  • Just finished with our second school visited.
  • At the top of a koppie, uncertain the car will make it if we head much further that direction.
  • Car vs. cattle.
  • A beautiful rural vista, with some clouds starting to gather over the wide horizon.
  • A long (and fortunately wide) road ahead.
  • The last school we visited, Masimanyane Senior Secondary School.
  • Plaque showing Masimanyane to be the newest school we visited, not yet programmed into GPS. We had to rely on old-fashioned maps and word-of-mouth to reach it.
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Field Mishaps

  • Blown tire (or "tyre" in South African) on the side of the highway.
  • Finding myself at the valley of one of Johannesburg South's many rolling hills.
  • The fixed tire, together with my handy tools.
  • Proud of myself for having fixed it.
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Outreach to KwaZulu-Natal

  • A church building in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
  • One of the many cattle living in this region.
  • A block of high school buildings.
  • A road leading to a school, with ominous summer thunder clouds in the distance.
  • The central courtyard of a school in Burford (pronounced like Bafford).
  • Early morning misty Drakensberg Mountains in the distance.
  • Students getting ready for an assembly at the school in Burford.
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Bloemfontein and the National Museum

  • Exterior of the National Museum in Bloemfontein.
  • Material culture associated with contemporary Homo sapiens.
  • Nineteenth-century apothecary exhibit.
  • A model of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, one of many historical buildings in Bloemfontein no longer extant.
  • A display in the archaeology wing of the museum, playing with popular perceptions of the field.
  • An example of monumental architecture in front of the city’s historical buildings.
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Snapshots in and around Johannesburg

View of the city from the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens (and dog park) during a cool winter.
Inside the caves at Sterkfontein, a major site of paleoanthropological finds and daily guided tours.
Sterkfontein from the surface level, with a path leading back to the visitors’ center.
A sculpture at The Wilds, a recently renovated public park in the city.
A place where I wash my clothes, buy my food, and occasionally receive Bible lessons, all under the majestic harvest moon.