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God is good. We made it back and forth to another country safely, and now I’ve even made it back to My Country. Let me share with you a little bit about our PGA (People Group Assessment) trip. The pictures are in the next blog post. A few of the main goals of this PGA […]

Here are a few pictures from our recent PGA trip. Enjoy! =img1= Here we are meeting with one of the village elders Friday morning. He helped us understand a lot about the situation in that village. =img2= Here I am working on getting a word list on Friday afternoon. It takes a long time to […]

Since I was out in Tanzania for the PGA training, I decided to spend a week with a good friend from Houghton College and her husband – Maria and Eric. For those of you know Tanzania, they were interning at Neema Crafts. Staying with them, I was near Masumbo, where I had spent the semester […]

I’ve been in a lot of classes, but the one I had three weeks ago was very different. Most of the time in school you learn things for tests and general knowledge or to be known for some time in the future. But this was different. It was a week of intensive class to be […]

…and other such silly sentences that we would (hopefully) never say. 🙂 But the title of this blog entry is an actual sentence we learned in Cherokee. Why?! We have spent a good portion of our language sessions learning verbs (yes, action words). We learned the verb “spill”. Except there is no way to say […]

Just a quick update to let you all know where our adoption process is right now. Our daughter’s visa interview with the US Embassy is on September 24th! After that if all goes well, the US Embassy will print her visa right away and we can go get her! Best case scenario is that we […]

You know you’re a missionary when the following dialogue comes up in an evening conversation and you think nothing of it: Missionary 1: “Do you know of the store Wimbly?” Missionary 2: “Maybe. What country is it in?” Missionary 1: “South Africa.” Missionary 3: “Ahh, that’s right. I knew that I had seen a lot […]

Now you have learned how to say “hello” in the Cherokee language! How to write it? Different story. 🙂 We didn’t write as many blogs about our road trip from Seattle to Oklahoma, mostly because we planned to surprise visit some friends in Missouri as a little fun detour before heading down to OK. The […]

We found out today that as of August 12, we have provisional approval for our daughter’s immigration into the US. Basically it is the last big step before she’s home. We would expect to be able to bring her home in 1 to 2 months now! Very excited about the news. God is so good.

“What you did was wrong and you need to apologize.” “If you hit him again you won’t get any candy later. You want candy, right?” Which of the two above responses to the misbehavior of a child sounds like good parenting to you? Likely the first one. But here, people would likely choose the second […]