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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 […]

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. 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

When I thought about coming to another country, I knew that I was going to need to change a lot to be effective in that country.  I never really understood what it meant until I came here. I wanted to give you some examples of how God is working in us and allowing us to […]

We had a holiday here a few days ago. We had no idea what it was for. We noticed different things happen during the day like boys pounding on little drums and little kids with wigs on and a lot of makeup. We didn’t think much of it except when our friend from school told […]

Overall, we think our visit with our neighbors for Tabaski went well. I will describe what went on but it hard to put into words the internal wrestling we had the whole day about what we should talk about with them, how should we act, etc. For instance, is it ok if we watched them […]