Author: Jacob and Melissa Honebein

Dear friends,                      Thank you for praying for us.  We just wanted to write a quick update on our prayer request that were sent in our last newsletter but we needed to write a blog post because our newsletter is needed for other things.  We have seen many answers to prayer in the past few […]

We have been thinking and praying a lot about our kids schooling recently.  We have really enjoyed Dakar Academy and so have our children.  They enjoy their classmates and teachers for the most part.  As we have met with their teachers on various occasions we are so impressed with their care for our kids and […]

Have I ever said that I love what I do? Well, I do. One of my favorite things is to care for people emotionally and to hear people’s stories. It was my favorite part of being a nurse too, when I got to care for people emotionally as they went through a very hard time […]

Lately, I have been feeling pretty crummy. I have been nauseated most of the day, bloated and sometimes I can’t even think straight because of the nausea. It is due to an abdominal hernia that should be fixed on Monday by surgery. I have been struggling with discouragement and not being short with my family. […]

Someone asked us recently, “Can’t a local person do what you do?” (For those of you who don’t know, we run a guesthouse in West Africa to serve the missionaries and pastors who come through our city. Our goal is to refresh them so that they can keep serving.) I responded, “Yes, but there is […]

We manage a guesthouse with a small yard and playground for children. We also live on the same center. So in a sense it is like our backyard. Yet, it can also be compared to a public park: free for any guests and our missionaries who live near enough to come and enjoy it whenever […]

I am a nurse. I enjoy nursing: caring for people and helping them. We had two nurses on our service team but they have recently left the field to care for ailing parents. We really miss them. Since they left everyone has been coming to me. I have had many different calls for help. Some […]

Have you ever seen an 8 yr old, 7 yr old and 2 yr old excited about using a drinking fountain? Have you ever seen someone jump up and down over a dusting of snow? Well, I have. My kids are so excited about the simplest things that they “have never” experienced before. Things like […]

This is what we do we host. In this past month we have hosted some teenagers for many meals who were left behind because their father was evacuated on a medical emergency. We have given hugs and hosted for meals parents that had just said goodbye to their children in boarding school. We’ve hosted singles […]

If any of you have ever run a hotel or been a manager you might be able to understand a bit of how our days are filled. We are basically the manager of a little hotel. We are the ones that handle the reservations, the maintenence, the projects, the staff, the visitors and we live […]