Saturday Evening the wind came and cooled our weather.  It was a great blessing from God.  So far we have stayed cool this week and it has been wonderful.  It is still too early to tell if we have made it through the hot season, or if this is just a little break.  Yet even […]

Thursday we got the pleasure of meeting Roger and Fredine for the first time.  Roger and Fredine are Haitian Missionaries (the first Haitian Missionaries) who have been in Senegal now for 3 years.  They live in a city called Thies which is about an 1 or 2 from Dakar.  He works with the local church […]

Moving here has been one of the greatest challenges of my life.  I know that we are where God has called us to be, so I know we will make it through this transition.  There are days, however, that I wonder how we will make it through. There are days here when… -It is so […]

As we struggle to make adjustments and get used to life here, it is nice to see how God is already at work.  Today when I was at church I was reminded as to how God is working here and I thought I would share what God is doing. – A new Believer – Today […]

Thank You For Your Prayers God really answered our prayers this week.  It was a difficult weekend as we worked through sickness and prepared for Ethan to go to school.  I find that sickness always makes me miss the comforts of my home even more than usual.  There were moments that I wondered if the […]

Well we woke Ethan up at 6:15 and got him ready for the bus.  Joel and Ethan headed out and waited for the bus to come and pick him up.  Ethan’s friend walked to our house so that Ethan would have a friend when he got on the bus.  That helped to make it a […]

Pray For Ethan Tomorrow Ethan starts school.  He will board a bus at 7 and go to a local private French preschool.  We ask prayer that it would go well for him and that he would adjust quickly.  We know that it will be hard to be in a school that speaks a different language, […]

We live in apartment in the middle of town.  The closest Missionary lives at least a 10 minute walk away.  No one has lived where we are so we have to figure out things about our location on our own.  We have received some help from people around here to located some stores and markets, […]

Over the past 3 days I have learned 196 new words in French.  Only two words come to mind in English…Mental Exhaustion.  The encouraging part has been watching my comprehension grow rapidly over a very short amount of time.  There have been moments of  blurred vision by tears, but all in all it has been […]