Full of Thanks!

November 25, 2016

I love Thanksgiving! This year we’re trying a new Thanksgiving tradition, in honor of Thanksgiving, every night this month we each pick one thing we’re thankful for. Calvin usually picks about three…but hey…can’t be too thankful, can ya? I thought I’d share somethings I’m thankful to God for this year. I’m thankful for this […]

Road Trip Part 2 – Why We Went

September 18, 2016

We’re going into a pretty serious career. Missionary burnout is more common than we’d like to admit. Or how about the missionaries that stick with it, but when they look back, wish that’d they’d done things differently? We don’t want to just be people living in a foreign country, we want to be actually […]

Road Trip Part 1 – African Animals!

September 17, 2016

Sometimes as Americans living in Senegal, we kinda forget that we’re IN AFRICA! And then we go on a road trip and drive through a national forest to get to our destination, and we see all kinds of cool animals and remember, “Oh yeah! We live in Africa!” The animals we saw early on in […]

And Then My Family Came!!!!!

September 10, 2016

After waiting and waiting, we spotted them! Dad, Mom and Nathan walking out of the airport! The long anticipated moment we’d been waiting for! It was so wonderful having family come and visit us! After they got in, it started raining, so our drive back home took a little longer than usual, but that’s okay […]

Read On!

September 10, 2016

Imagine…you’ve had a bad day, you’re discouraged, you just want some refreshment from God’s Word, you open your Bible, but it’s all gibberish, you can’t read it…it quenches no spiritual thirst. You want to know God’s will, you’re in a tough situation, and just don’t have the wisdom on your own to know what to do. […]

Host Family

July 12, 2016

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, and I didn’t know exactly what to post as their’s so much I could say, but I knew I wanted to share about our host-family appreciation party, so I figure I’ll take the opportunity not only to tell you about that special day, but sum up what a host […]

AEE

May 4, 2016

With God’s help (and I really mean that!) I was able to complete the Association pour L’Evangelisation des Enfants (AEE) training….better known to some of you as Child Evengelism Fellowship (CEF). I don’t have the final results back yet, but I’m pretty sure I passed. I was nervous going into this training, not sure exactly […]

What God’s Done in 1 Year

April 18, 2016

Sometimes I don’t know what all to share on the blog, but then I thought about verses like Psalms 107:2a “Let those delivered by the Lord speak out…”; and Psalms 107:22 “Let them present thank offerings, and loudly proclaim what he has done!” I want to loudly declare to you what God has done in […]

Christmas in the Casamance – Part 3

January 4, 2016

Christmas in the Casamance – Part 1 Christmas in the Casamance – Part 2 During our trip to the Casamance, there were times of getting out of comfort zones, both for us and the kids. However overall it was really encouraging to see our kids enjoying village life, and getting more excited to one day […]

Christmas in the Casamance – Part 2

January 2, 2016

Part 1 if you missed it. Saturday morning we got all ready to go to the wedding. Once ready we headed down the trail leading to the main road so we could catch some transport to the nearby town where the wedding would be held. The whole ceremony was done in Diola and translated into […]