Burundi and Hope Africa University

When I told my optometrist where we were going in January, he asked: "Oh, is that one of those oil-rich countries?"  Not so! Burundi is one of the smallest countries in Africa, but one of the most densely populated, struggling to recover economically, politically, and socially from years of civil war. Burundi is in the geographic heart of Africa, bordered by Rwanda, Tanzania, and Congo.
We will be teaching for three weeks in Bujumbura, the capitol city, at Hope Africa University, a rapidly growing Free Methodist liberal arts university with students from several African countries, and led by the FM bishop of Burundi, Elie Bucinyori. These three weeks are a concentrated module between the two semesters.
We leave early Tuesday (1/3), traveling with (Dr.) Frank and Carol Ogden, long term missionaries, who will be serving for two months at Kibuye Hospital, upcountry from Bujumbura. We return to Seattle Jan 30