Africa 2006

Mac’s Refuge in Sevare prepares a nightly sit-down dinner for guests. A three-course meal is served around a long table so everyone gets a chance to meet and get to know each other. My companions for the Moroccan meal last Monday were 10 American missionaries based in various African countries on a retreat (the owner, Mac, is a lapsed missionary himself), and one more former missionary from – the Faroe Islands! He was also born in Reykjavik and so I had a bizarre dinner with a group of missionaries practising my Icelandic. You just never know who’ll you meet on the road ….