Sarah Schendel sat beside a man and woman who perked up when she mentioned the Episcopal Church. The man asked about our trip and when Sarah mentioned that we were restarting a relationship with Tanga in Tanzania that Diocese of Oh and Bishop Burt initiated 37 years ago, the man replied that he is a member in All Saints Pasedena where John Burt served before becoming Bp of OH.  Dr. Don Thomas is his name and he has been working in Malawi for nine years to make sustainable improvements in healthcare. He was working with a Dr. of Anthropology Andrea Freidus who teaches at Michigan State. We had great conversation about the difficulty of sustainable work and the challenge of helping us realize in the states how we have been connected for a long time, but unaware of many of the ways. Dr Thomas offered to come to Toledo to meet and possibly do a workshop. Dr. Thomas recommended the "Myths and Magic Bullets" chapter from Sachs End of Poverty. They recommended Bottom Billion, Dead Aid and Twinning. Thank you God for the chance to meet them.

On the plane from Ethiopa I also had fascinating conversation with an American who had grown up for 10 years in Ethiopia. He claimed that Ethiopia was one of only five civilaztions to come up with a musical notation system (the rest of what he said was over my musical head). He talked about visiting a series of churches hewn out of rock, and said the church there reminds him of Jewish worship as much as Christian. He spoke for an inspired hour about the rift valley, a set of three lakes near eachother that were