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Thursday morning before Easter, I woke up to an email from my mom tell me about how my older brother had decided to turn to Christ and that he would be baptized this Sunday.  Tears of Joy filled my eyes as it was a day that we had waited for a long time.  After the […]

We have come a long way, but we are often told now that there is not mercy.  The deeper we get the harder things become to accept.  The things that remain now are some of the most challenging things left in culture for us to accept.  However as we press on, we are positive that […]

The call arrives to say, “We are here!” The car pulls up and two kids run down the stairs to hug their grandparents My son reminds me that we shouldn’t say we will pray, but we should just pray right now Their voices rise up to God asking him to heal their grandma I read […]

Last Tuesday we had our cultural assessment and also graduation from our official national culture and language study.  We still have growth yet to achieve, but will now do that along side our ministry rather than that being our full time ministry.  So we had all the other missionaries out who are still in the […]

Fasting and Praying – Last week the ladies of my church approached me saying that they were fasting and praying with the ladies of the other church in our town.  It sounded like a good idea to me, but then they told me that they were doing 72 straight hours.  My first thought was, “Are […]

I now have 6 numbers in my phone for Joel depending on which country he is in at the moment We are slowly getting mentally ready to dive into Wolof again Cecil started selling fruit just around the corner, which means I only have to walk around the corner to get fruit and I can […]

Unity In the Body Of Christ This is one area that God has really spoken to us over the past few years, as we have reached out to integrate into the Church here.  There is nothing magical about it, the church here has problems just like any other church, but God didn’t call us to […]

This week we bought tickets to return to the states this summer!   We will arrive in Portland August 1st.  We couldn’t be more excited and yet… A few days after purchasing the tickets Ethan was on skype with his Grandma and he said that he didn’t know whether to be excited to be in […]

Last Wednesday I went to Dakar for the day to check in with some of the newer missionaries to our field in Joel’s absence.   The car had been fixed by our mechanic just the day before which meant that I was starting on a very empty tank (part of the price of mechanical work […]

Last Saturday I spent the day with Cecil out at their village helping her as she was preparing a big meal for an engagement celebration.  I have to be honest that I was so touched when she asked me to come and help, because for the first time I could tell that she actually wanted […]