• We all know that winter brings snow-draped trees, ice on the windshield, and school cancellations. However, it's July and I see sunshine, petunias, fireworks, and mosquitoes. In Michigan, that is.

• Next Tuesday Don and I fly to Johannesburg, drive to Welkom, drop into winter and another world. At the Pines, Phil and Alana, Kimmy and Johnny Carmichael reach out to orphans in South Africa, home to the highest HIV infection rate in the world. They strive to raise children in a Christian environment to be morally pure thus changing their life style so that they will live through the pandemic and make a lasting impact on Africa.

• While in South Africa we'll also spend a week at the Zulu Nyala Heritage Tented Safari Camp in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, adjacent to the Zulu Nyala Private Game Reserve. Trusting that we'll have good Internet access, I'll let you travel along without leaving home. Pray with us that this experience will produce a change in us, as well as those crossing our paths and walking into our hearts.

Because He lives,

Mrs. Judy