After taking off from Lagos, our charter plane headed across the vast continent of Africa on its way to Nairobi, Kenya. It flew for hours and hours and for miles and miles. Africa is more than three times bigger than the continental United States. According to Wikipedia, Africa is 11,725,385 square miles, while the United … Continue reading Adventures in East Africa—Part I
As a Peace Corps Volunteer during my two-year service, they allowed me to take 45 days of vacation time. My understanding (although no one actually instructed me so) was I was allowed to go anywhere in Africa at my own expense. Of course, since my pay was a limited allowance that corresponded to the relative … Continue reading Fun and Revelations in West Africa—Part I
Photo by samer daboul After living in Gagnoa, for about four months, I realized that my life there was pretty good. People were extremely friendly and polite. Everywhere I went they offered me something to drink since I often traveled in the tropical sun for long distances. At noon, they offered me a meal. While … Continue reading Life in the Ivory Coast
Photo by Luis Quintero: https://www.pexels.com/photo/selective-focus-photo-of-person-holding-book-2351719/ Finding God requires more than just searching for His existence. It calls for deeper involvement, a forming of knowledge, and a close personal relationship with the omnipotent creator of this life and humankind. There comes a time in people’s lives when they begin their search for God’s existence in their … Continue reading Searching for God: The Road Less Traveled
Eighteen guys, including me, trained at UCLA for the health education project for which we were invited from September through December 1965. In the last couple of weeks or so, Peace Corps asked for volunteers for a special school gardens program that it persuaded the Ivorian government to accept. I told them that I was … Continue reading The School Gardens Program
Finally, we were airborne! “On our way to a new land, new culture, new customs, and a new way of thinking,” I wrote in the diary that I started to keep after my arrival. We flew from JFK in New York straight to Dakar, Senegal, where we landed to refuel and for the pilots and … Continue reading Welcome to the Ivory Coast
The newest book that I wrote was The Vegetable Grows and the Lion Roars: My Peace Corps Service. It recounts my experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast, West Africa in the early days of the new program in the 1960s that was started by the new President John F. Kennedy to … Continue reading Why I Wrote this Peace Corps Memoir
In the mail, I just received my copy of June 6 edition of the Publishers Weekly magazine with their BookLife book review of my new book The Vegetable Grows and the Lion Roars: My Peace Corps Service. The review is quite positive which is very heartening for me. To be appreciated is always welcome for … Continue reading Another Review for My New Book
In my book God’s Existence: Truth or Fiction? The Truth Revealed, I present a scientific study to examine scientific evidence to prove the existence of God. I take a different perspective by claiming the Bible and science say the same thing. As I studied writings by scientists and Christian writers, I discovered four key Scriptures … Continue reading Key Scriptures Help Us to Understand the Bible Better
While I was in the Peace Corps and took a vacation break, I visited East Africa and the various game reserves including Amboseli and Serengeti and saw a lot of wild animals including lions, leopards, and cheetahs but no tigers. Recently, I found some very interesting facts about tigers on my smartphone that I want … Continue reading Unknown Facts About Tigers
Gary R. Lindberg 