Tommy Downs

with Overland Missions

Joy’s Sector Trip Update

Hey everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve wrote. We had a bunch of Zambian chiefs on base a while back. Zambia’s been in a drought for the past two years, s...

Ate a Rat

We started taking a course (Wilderness First Responder) where essentially we learn how to be EMTs. It’s definitely fun stuff. Now I can pretend to be a docto...

Joy’s Second Week of School

Hey everyone, this is Joy writing, Hopper’s wife and Tommy’s sister. It’s been about two and a half weeks of AMT, and it’s definitely different than I expect...

First Week of School

I’m enjoying my first week of school, mission Theology is our morning class, it’s easy. Sustain in the evenings is a bit different and may be more challengin...

Hopper’s Africa Update

Greetings to friends and family alike, may the sanctifying grace and tranquilizing peace of the Lord be upon you.

Back From First Expedition

Then we got back from Salumbwe, and we went shopping at the Shoprite. But the other truck did not start, so most of the people from that truck squished into ...

First days at AMT

When we arrived at the airport in Livingstone Zambia, we grabbed our bags and waited for the Overland people to come pick us up. While we waited, I started p...

Travelling Fun Times

I didn’t exactly trust that leaving from Dubuque at 11:15am would be early enough to catch a bus in Madison and from there get to the Chicago airport 2 hours...

Advanced Mission Training Update 01

In 10 days, my sister Joy, her husband Hopper, and I are going to Zambia for 3 months. We’re going for advanced mission training by Overland Missions where w...

Advanced Mission Training

Hopper said he wanted to do AMT (Advanced Mission Training), so Joy (My sister, his fiancé) and I decided we’d do it too.

Favorite Software

This is all libre, free, open source software. Which means it’s free to download obviously, but also that the code is available for anyone to edit and improv...