SENTINEL WATCH April 28, 2003 Issue

Unlocking God's potential in Southern Africa

By Kim Shippey Senior Writer

"Ideas change the world only when they are shared."

The words sprang out at me as I walked through Johannesburg International Airport on my way to catch a British Airways flight to the coastal city of Durban. I thought: "If only I had some helpful ideas to share about the AIDS epidemic, unemployment, and violent crime in South Africa—and about the Zimbabwean situation."

On my hike to Gate 27, I had been reading the messages on posters that appeared at regular intervals along walkways and escalators. The first was a caption to a photograph of an elderly woman with a wizened, brown face under a battered sunhat. She was wearing a white blouse and a necklace of clay beads in rainbow colors. She was deep in thought, and looked with shining eyes into the far distance across parched veld that hadn't seen a rainbow in ages.

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