Pat has been in Swaziland for about 3 years; 2 years directing the Salvation Army Clinic and starting the SA Community Counseling Center. The first functioning community - based counseling center in the country. Her contracted last year, her funding had ended; with her task in Africa still unfinished, , she returned to her home in the UK in mid 1999 (having been a hospice nurse there for 15 years.) and raised money from a variety of concerned sources to enable her to return to Swaziland to continue her hospice work, this time attached to the Anglican Church. (I don't recall her Deacon history - except an observation: in Swaziland, that she is influencing to a significant extent the respect for and growing status of women in the country.
She also coordinated the first major activity involving the 3 quite different Christian church groups in the country ('Main line' denominations, Evangelicals, Zionists)- for World AIDS Day last December; a mammoth event, parades, speeches at the national soccer stadium,etc.
Pat is well on the way to organizing - with her 3 church groups - the AIDS Candlelight Memorial scheduled for
May 21. Plans are to encourage similar Candlelight Memorials on that date in churches throughout the Diocese of
Bethlehem.