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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 […]

The Kingdom of Dahomey was settled by the French and was given independence on August 1, 1960. Mathiew Kerekou  led an uprising that took power in the early 1970s. Kerekou was influenced by Marxism and started to implement it in the country. In 1989 when the Iron Curtain fell in the Soviet Union, Kerekou saw […]