Author: Susie

How do you like the picture above?  Does it just make you stand in awe of what God does?  No, not yet?  Ok, let me share the backstory, and I think that you’ll be excited about it, too. If you remember, a month ago I shared about a trip I was going to take to […]

In 2015 I was on a People Group Assessment (PGA) trip in a remote corner of Guinea.  It was a memorable trip, what with our car getting a flat tire, so having to take motorcycles, driving through brackish water, falling off motorcycles, and every meal being way too spicy for me to be able to […]

I’m a horrible speller. Ok, I’m a lot better now. But I at least used to be a horrible speller. I remember my parents coming home from parent-teacher conferences when I was in 5th grade and telling me how they went. Academically, my teacher had said that I was doing great. (She had other concerns, […]

If any of you have ever driven a motorcycle among chickens, you know why they created the “why did the chicken cross the road” jokes.  Chickens are just not like the other farm animals that you may see around you as you drive your motorcycle on any given day! CATTLE definitely rule the road, but […]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I know it’s a bit late for a Christmas letter, so let’s call it a New Year’s letter instead.  How was your Christmas?  Did you get to celebrate with loved ones?  Here we definitely did not have a white Christmas – it was brown as normal at this time […]

As many of you know, My Language was unwritten until January 2022. Now we have an alphabet and are continuing to work on other spelling rules. Let’s just say that creating a writing system for a language involves a lot more than just an alphabet! If you want to know more you’ll have to write […]

It’s noon and *Ibrahima calls, asking if I’m home.  I say yes.  He follows it up with, “I’m nearby.  Can I stop over?”  (I think he adds that question because I’m white.)  I say yes again.  And I quickly think – hmm, when *Adama called a little after 11 saying he was coming over, I […]

Ethnos360 is sometimes seen as “old school” among missions organizations working in Bible translation, since we still see the importance of the missionary learning the language and not just facilitating mother tongue speakers as they translate into their own language. And that’s one of the factors that has drawn me to Ethnos360 and continues to […]

Just over a year.  That’s how long it’s been since I stepped off the plane, finally having permission to return to My Country, after 1003 nights out of the country since my planned return in 2018.  And though it hasn’t always been easy, it’s still so wonderful to be back for however long God has […]

I have good news to share with you – our alphabet is approved by the leaders of My People! I was recently in Senegal for some meetings, and it was on my first Sunday in Senegal that the chief of the whole people group, as well as many village chiefs, literacy teachers in the language […]