Life here in Burkina Faso is great. There are some things I would need to get used to if we moved here. One of those things is the heat. We have had temperatures in the high 30s and low 40s Celsius here. For those of you who are not familiar with Celsius, the Fahrenheit equivalent […]

These are excerpts from Jacob’s journal of his time in Benin of the food that he is having there and what he noticed about goats on his way to Benin. Sorry for the choppiness of this.  I have copied and pasted the excerpts about the food from different days he journaled about. They have an […]

Another excerpt… “We went to Glasoue about 15 km away. It was a smaller city than Dassa, but with much bigger need among the Idatcha. We met with Pastor Philippe who is the only Idatcha pastor working with only Idatcha people. He pastors a church of over 200 and they have planted two others that […]

This excerpt is from a journal entry from Jacob on March 14th.  Prosper is the head translator for the Idatcha people. “We woke up around 9:00 the next morning. Prosper said he would send someone to meet us here and he could bring us back to his office. We went outside and waited. While we were […]

Through reading I Samuel with my women’s Bible study and reading my kids Bible stories, God has been teaching me about David.  David had a crazy faith to trust God  to do the impossible.  He walked out to face a giant as a boy with just a stone and a sling shot!  Saul in comparison […]

So we started our day having breakfast at a very nice cafe.  Nicer than Panera Bread back home.  It is nicer because you get served instead of just ordering foodbut it hadthings similar in food and drinks there.    A couple here treated Jacob for his birthday.  We then went to the African clothing market. […]

  A cultural experience… Yesterday, we were to travel back to Dakar with a missionary friend, but before we left we realized we had a flat tire.  No problem.  We put on the spare tire.  ( There is not much humidity or salt on the roads here so there was no “Wisconsin factor” of rust […]