When Life Throws Curve-balls

March 15, 2019

The end of January we received a group of new missionaries. Two weeks after arrival they began their daily sessions learning how to communicate in our French world. When people arrive we usually have them do the first phase of our program as a whole group, meaning that each day they advance together as a […]

Pottery

February 21, 2019

A few weeks ago we took the boys to a place where they could do pottery. The center we took them to is a ministry that works with the deaf community in Dakar, but they also do some one on one sessions with kids. Our kids worked with someone who helped them make an animal […]

Christmas And a Chicken

February 5, 2019

Christmas for us began with the celebration on our church. Everyone had a part in the celebration and it was such a joy watching our church family celebrate together the birth of our Savior. Christmas Day we distributed meals as normal and then headed out to celebrate with our host family in their village. For […]

Breaking the Silence

January 30, 2019

It as been now over a month since I have actually managed to get something out on our blog. There are things half written but not published yet which should hopefully be making their appearance in the new few weeks. So why the silence? Well the beginning of this year proved to be as busy […]

2 Weekends and 2 Weddings

December 17, 2018

Our first 2 weekends in December were surrounded with weddings. The first one took us down to the southern part of Senegal to see a coworker and friend get married. This past weekend our host family’s adopted daughter did the first 2 step in her wedding which is a traditional ceremony at our host families […]

Answered Prayers

December 7, 2018

Here are 3 amazing things God did during Joel’s time down in Guinea… Driving The first challenge was the drive to the village. The drive on the whole went better than they thought, but there was one part that was definitely sketchy. Work is being done for a bridge, but it is not close to […]

Today

November 29, 2018

Today, along with another member of our leadership team, Joel is traveling out to a new people group with whom we would like to work. We have a team there on the ground who have been making trips out to different villages for the past year and trying to decide where they should locate. They […]

The view from there…Guinea

November 28, 2018

Just a few more pictures…

There and Back Again

November 22, 2018

It is probably not best to leave a story unfinished. The next day we were successfully able to leave and the rest of our trip went fairly smoothly. Here are a bit of our story in pictures.

Travel…always an adventure

November 12, 2018

We are on a bad string with travel adventures. It makes me realize how blessed we were before as things have gone pretty smoothly for us with airport and flight travel even with some of the small more local flights we end up taking. The airplane seats might be broken, but we get there and […]