Category: Uncategorized

Ok, so I just posted about all of the cuts around town. As soon as I finished the post I read the facebook status of another missionary here in town. She said that the gas trucks are on strike (hence the gas cut?), the border/customs officials are on strike, and the soda bottling company. There […]

Have you thought about what you’re having for Easter dinner yet? I know what the pastor’s family here is having. From the picture, can you guess? Yes, a month ago the pastor came back from a week away with these two goats, saying that they were much cheaper there and that they’d make a great […]

Welcome to hot season. In Jula, the name for the month of March is “the hot month.” The name for the month of April? “The really hot month.” It’s currently 89 degrees in my house. I went outside with my thermometer, and within 5 minutes in the sun it was up to 120 degrees and […]

It Takes a “Village” (not just a missionary) A theme that has woven its way through our last month or so has been teamwork.  We studied in Acts how the church prayed and sent out Paul and Barnabas from Antioch (Acts 13:1-3).  They didn’t go alone, the church was behind them.  We’ve also had the privilege to learn and pray […]

It has been just over 1 month since we joined the Tigak team, and now we are just a few short weeks away from allocating (moving in) to the tribe! We have been keeping VERY busy with the many details of preparing for this big transition. Just a few things on our list have been: […]

I grew up in Wisconsin, the land of 4 seasons. During the summer, we could usually count the number of days that it hit 90 on our hands, and on those days my mom told us that if we were outside we should be getting wet – playing the sprinkler, jumping in a pool, etc. […]

Here are some pictures of last week in two different villages, where I accompanied the national women’s committees of my denomination a couple West African countries.  They say that a pictures paints 1000 words, so I won’t add too many more words.  Thanks for your prayers!

Well friends, the day has finally come! After 15 years (give/take) of anticipating being involved in church planting and Bible translation, we have joined a church planting work! Last Sunday, 2-22-15, after MUCH prayer, thought, and seeking counsel, we decided to join the Tigak work. We are incredibly thrilled! (And many other emotions…) We knew […]

Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} We’re back from our Bush Orientation! We have just returned to the highlands after spending a busy and fruitful 8.5 weeks in […]

Yesterday I got to thinking and I realized that this “thing” we’re planning on doing has never before been done in the history of the world. No one has ever planted a maturing, growing church among our people group. They have among other, related people groups, but not our People. That means that there is […]