Floyd & Sally McClung

I can’t believe we’re already a month into a new year!  Where did 2006 go?  It seemed to fly by!  Of course, I guess making a big international move had a little something to do with that.
We’ve had major things happening in these few beginning weeks of the year - wind, heat, fire, death.  […]

I can’t believe we’re already a month into a new year!  Where did 2006 go?  It seemed to fly by!  Of course, I guess making a big international move had a little something to do with that.
We’ve had major things happening in these few beginning weeks of the year - wind, heat, fire, death.  […]

By Floyd McClung

(Portions of this article are adapted from Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper)

To paraphrase John Piper, the value we place on something is determined by how much we are willing to sacrifice to have it and keep it. If we are willing to give up everything to have something, then it has ultimate value to us. To that degree, we are passionate about something we believe in.

Every day is an adventure for me in Africa. I never quite know what might be in store for my day when I wake up . There is, seemingly, never a dull day….and, I must say, I enjoy it a lot.
FIRES - Recently, we’ve had a terrible fire blazing in our part […]

One scholar is predicting a clash of “Christian” and Muslim civilizations in the future, with inevitable victory being won by the more “dedicated” and persistent Muslim forces.
Others see Muslims as our enemies right now: “They are all terrorists at heart,” they say.
Conservative Christians believe Muslims and Christians pray to different Gods, and that the […]

No, not the Holy Spirit kind - the natural kind!  Fire has been blazing in our valley for 2 days.
We are living (house-sitting for a friend) in a home on the side of a mountain overlooking a large valley.  Part of the valley is made up of what they call the “vlei” - a […]

A massive fire has been raging around one of the townships we are working in, just minutes from where we live in Cape Town, and then last night one of the pastors was killed. The township is called Massipumelele. Last night when the fire was blazing, there were emergency vehicles coming……we thought it was […]

“The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it.”  John 3:8
That could have been written about Cape Town!!!  They told us about the winds when we were preparing to move here.  They call them the “Cape Doctor” because they blow so often that they keep the air quality clean and […]