Looking back

May 22, 2017

We just celebrated the finishing of our formal culture learning time two weeks ago with our team. It was a neat time to reflect back on what went well or didn’t, what we enjoyed and what was difficult, what we learned, etc. Our team also gave us feedback as well. I would like to share […]

Feeling at home

May 22, 2017

When I think of the trials and the difficulties that we have encountered since we first came, it seemed impossible to ever feel at home here. But it is possible! After a few months of readapting to the culture and our new apartment and routine I finally felt comfortable a lot of the time. It […]

God’s Wonderful Omnipresence

September 3, 2015

We found out we were expecting our third child amidst a turbulent time. The same week I found out that I was pregnant, I found out two friends were pregnant and miscarrying their babies. They were about the same weeks as I was. We took a vacation as a family and I started studying the […]

A hospital visit

September 3, 2015

I got to see one of Senegal’s main public hospital’s the other day. One of my friends was having a uterine fibroid taken out. Let me describe a bit of her experience here. The hospital is a huge complex with many buildings and they are not connected by tunnels or corridors but regular outside walk […]

A Sereer wedding

May 27, 2015

I got to go to traditional wedding with my friend Hawa the other weekend. (Hawa is in the middle and the sister of the bride is the lady on the right. We were invited by her. She is my neighbor.)It was a great experience. We got there around 6pm. There was a DJ that was […]

Inadequacy

May 22, 2015

Inadequacy. If we stop and realize just how inadequate we are it is very humbling. We are seeing this first hand when we look at our relationships:being a good husband or wife, a good mom or dad, good neighbors or friends. Not only do we feel inadequate but we feel like we don’t have adequate time […]

Reflecting on how we have changed in our first year

October 14, 2014

This past year has been such a stretching year in regards to all areas of our life. Our lives have been under a ton of stress and change and this has greatly affected our marriage, spiritual lives and our children. We have experienced the stress of a new culture, language and way of living. There […]

Village missions trip

October 14, 2014

Our church took a missions trip to a village a few hours away from here. Their hope is to partner with a missionary to plant a church in the village there. We left at 9am on Tuesday morning with a full 15 passenger van. We stayed in at a youth camp near the village that […]

chébou jen

August 22, 2014

I got the privilege of hanging out with my neighbor all day last Saturday as she taught me how to prepare chébou jen; a local dish here. It is a dish served with either brown or red rice(rice that is cooked with tomato paste), fish and vegetables. We went to the market together from 9:30 […]

My first funeral in Senegal

August 14, 2014

It all started on Sunday afternoon when my friend Khady called me and told me her grandma had died. Her grandma was like a mom to her. I knew I needed to go to this even though it was about two hours away in a village I had never been to. It was decided at […]