Sacrifice and service are woven through the ANZAC Day Service. They are enduring themes and provide a fitting coda to our visit to Timor Leste. The alarm went off at 4.45am, Gary Ware’s first and Rob Duncanson’s one minute later. It’s hard to explain in detail, but with our phones still reflecting the half hour …
Those of you who have been following our itinerary will have noticed that today was ‘wrap up’ day. If you haven’t known what you’ve been praying for in anticipation of this day, well neither have we. We knew we would be meeting with some of the leadership of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Timor Leste …
Daur and Dili are separated by a distance of only 127 kilometers, but represent a separation far greater than that. Today we will travel between the two. Our second morning in Samé commences in much the same way as the first. The rooster starts his crowing before the light. Apparently he is set for 5.03am, …
Last Christmas there was civil strife over a planned Christmas celebration in our next destination, Besusu. Out of a sense of caution, our motorcade was joined with a car from the UN security force. Four uniformed armed officials drove ahead of us the thirty kilometers from Betano to Besusu. So, to visualize, a UN Landcruiser, …
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