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It has been a few years since have had the pleasure to participate in kids camp. This is a big ministry of our church and I love being part of it. It is a lot of work, chaotic at times, but makes such an impact in kids lives. A lot of the youth when they […]

In June we traveled to Mozambique to participate in a leadership conference there. The week before the conference they hosted a workshop on church planting. Since we were going we were able to benefit from them both. I will share a few highlights for you about our time, but first a God story. There is […]

It is hard for us to imagine as the Bible is something we have such easy access to in English. We can choose which version to read and where to read it or even how big the letters are that we read. Yet for so many places around the world this is not a luxury […]

It has been way too long since we updated you guys. Life has just proved to be too busy in the past few months that I have struggled to find time to sit down and share what God is doing. However the month of August has been more calm for us and so I have […]

The next exciting piece of our life was a new undertaking we are calling the E2 workshop. Remember how 3 months ago we recieved 3 families and one single to our field? They are currently in a time period we call E2. This is the time period where they learn French, start adapting to life […]

Our next trip took us down to a family who just began what we call staging. Staging is the process of moving close to the village you want to serve in and beginning the process of asking permission to move in. After which they then must find or build housing to move in. Since this […]

A whole month has passed without a word and I can’t even think of where to start with all the things that have gone on since the last time I wrote. Really the main thing we have done is travel A LOT. The first trip we had took us down to Guinea to visit a […]

At the beginning of our year Joel and I were reflecting on what our goals were for this upcoming year. We really wanted Ethan to be able to connect more with the kids from our church. The kids from our church are scattered among different schools, which all have different schedules and they live in […]

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 […]

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 […]