By STEVE HAYES
On these pages you will find articles about some of the things we are interested in, and links to similar things on other pages. Our interests include art, literature, Christian theology, history, genealogy and a lot more.
There are more than 30 pages here, and we keep adding more, so we hope you will come back again. If you get lost, you can always come back to this home page, or there are index pages that show all our pages in various categories.
The main point of having a Web page is to provide a contact and reference point for friends and family or people with similar interests (who are potential friends), so if anything on these pages interests you, please let us know by signing our guest book or writing to us.
We've lived in what is now Tshwane, South Africa, since 1983, but before that we were in KwaZulu/Natal, and we were all born there, and so regard that as home.
Steve retired from the Editorial Department of the University of South Africa at the end of September 1999, and hopes to eke out the rather small pension by freelance editing, writing, teaching and researching.
His e-mail addresses at the university will no longer work, so please see our contact page if you would like to keep in touch. One of his first freelance teaching jobs was teaching mission and missiology at the Resurrection of Christ Orthodox Theological Seminary at Shen Vlash-Durres, Albania.
Stephen Hayes was ordained as a deacon by His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim, Orthodox Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria, at the Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, Pretoria, on 25 July 2004.
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What's new
Val's new job and stolen car
Val has resigned from ADT Security, and will start a new job closer to home
at the end of July.
On the night of 9/10 July thieves broke in to our yard, poisoned our
puppy Mardigan, and stole our Toyota Venture. The theft of the Venture
is a more serious blow than the loss of our Mazda, which was stolen last
year, because we used the Venture in our mission work.
Trip to the UK
Steve and Val travelled to the UK in May 2005, and visited friends and relatives we had not seen for some years, and met some cousins for the first time. We also visited some some ancestral places where ou British ancestors had lived, in Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Glamorgan, Cumberland, Scotland, the Isle of Axholme and Essex.
Rescuing the memory of our peoples
In September Steve went to a conference in Rome on church and mission history in Africa, Asia and Latin America, attended by archivists, missiologists and church historians from over 20 countries. Steve read a paper at the conference on the Database of African Independent Churches and African Church leaders, a project he has been working on for the last 12 years.
Political memoirs
Steve has been writing a few pages of political memoirs. There seemed to be very little information on the web about the role of the Liberal Party in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and so until someone writes a more comprehensive account, here is some information. There is also a little on the church struggle in Namibia. Not much yet, but I'll be adding to it, and I hope others who were involved in these events will contribute.
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