Recently Charles and I traveled with seven other NTM missionaries to visit existing church planting works in village settings of Senegal. To start, we drove for over 12 hours passing through the little country of Gambia to the south of Senegal. At times if felt like there were more pot holes than pavement on the roads we took. In between trips, we visited with family in Charles’ home village in the South of Senegal. Then, later we took a car with 6 other passengers out east to visit villages near Guinea and Mali before returning to the big city of Dakar. We were challenged by each different work and challenged all the more to continue working as missionaries here in West Africa. God has challenged our hearts to become a part of a team like these who take the gospel to unreached people who do not have the Bible in their language. We are preparing for this task while serving in the city of Dakar, Senegal. For now we are working with our local Senegalese church to encourage believers in the city to be involved in reaching their country for Christ and encouraging the growth of this small body of believers. We have decided to present several of these village works as separate posts, so read on.