34 Days and Counting – Difficulties

August 20, 2014 Joey Cope 1

As I prepared to write my previous post, I attempted to open my website. No response. Frustrating. In fact, very frustrating. Over the past several months, I had experienced multiple outages. Recently, my web host provider, assured me that our difficulties were over. But now, more than 30 hours after [read more]

35 Days and Counting – MITS

August 20, 2014 Joey Cope 1

We’re leaving in 35 days. Even though much of our work in Africa is directed toward adults, our team leader, Dr. Betty Gilmore, worked to ensure that we would also have time with the future of Africa, the children. So, in addition to the children we see along the way [read more]

36 Days and Counting – Songs

August 14, 2014 Joey Cope 3

I spend a lot of time with music. I’m not musically talented, at least not anymore. That takes practice. But I love music and music tells stories. In 36 days, our team will be flying to Africa and we’ll be hearing new songs. Each of them will chisel out distinct [read more]

37 Days and Counting – ALARM

August 13, 2014 Joey Cope 0

In 37 days, our gallant band of adventurers will head to Rwanda — and then later to Kenya — to conduct training in conflict resolution and leadership. Our group is made up of students from Southern Methodist University’s graduate program in Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management and the director of that program, [read more]

38 Days and Counting – Trips

August 13, 2014 Joey Cope 2

As I sat down last night to see if I could capture my thoughts for the day, just 38 days before our team leaves for Africa, I was wordless. I was tired from one of the many trips I have scheduled. Yesterday’s was an important journey for several reasons — [read more]