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Welcome to Angola

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Ericleidy, myself, and Ngunza with one of the guards at the prison in Menongue

Greetings. My name is Michael. In 2022, my wife and I and our children moved to the African country of Angola to do mission work and teach English and computer skills. We spent one year there. We lived in a remote city called Menongue on the Operation Mobilization mission base. We started this website to tell of our time in the beautiful country of Angola.

I visited Angola in March of 2020 and got stranded there for two extra weeks because of the COVID-19 lockdown. The landmine removal organization HALO Trust helped me get out of the country when all domestic flights were cancelled and overland travel was restricted.

I wrote a memoir chronicling my experience titled “Welcome to Angola: Something Always Goes Wrong.” It is a time capsule of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a look at a month-long mission trip, and a story of my time with the HALO Trust team and the 1,000 kilometer “Coronavirus Convoy” to get to the capital city of Luanda. It is posted here at the “Book” link above.

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With the mascot of the national futbol team, a giant sable antelope, also the national animal of Angola