Category: Updates and News

This past weekend was the wedding of two youth who have grown up in our church.  Weddings here are a community affair, each has his or her role to play.  We are slowly learning what those roles are and how to play our part.  Even the kids had a role to play this time.  The […]

Friday afternoon I headed out to a wedding prep (don’t worry pictures and a post on the wedding will follow).  These events are some of my favorite with the women, because the women of the two churches gather all together and we sit and talk while working on food prep.  It is such a good […]

Life gets busy and we get going and sometimes we forget to look around and see what God is at work doing.  So here is my effort for me to do that personally and also for you to hear a little of what God is at work doing here. A New Family Arrives – 4 […]

God values rest.  We see that clearly in scriptures, but it is often hard to live out.  It is hard to live out because there are so many things calling out to us in life.  So many good things.  We are called to serve and serving requires sacrifice.  Once we get in the habit of […]

Easter was a wonderful time for us this year.  It was just pure joy to celebrate this holiday at church, then with our family and finally to share our celebration with our neighbors.  It was an added joy this year to celebrate both Cecil’s and Cindy’s Birthday on the same day.  Here are some pictures […]

Well let me tell you about it!  One of the traditions here in Senegal on any holiday is to make stuff for your neighbors and share the holiday with all.  For most holidays this means making large portions of whatever meal you prepare for that day and sending it out to all your neighbors.  Easter […]

When we first arrived, my boys wanted nothing to do with Sunday School.  They didn’t understand anything and it was very different so they preferred staying with us in the service.  However I knew that it would be important for them in the long run to make friends and be comfortable in our church.  So […]

I try to make goal of writing something short weekly, but I have been having a hard time with that recently.  Not because I don’t have anything to write, because, believe me, I always have a story to tell. It is the time that escapes me and before I know it I look back and […]

Our ministry is mostly about discipleship.  I am learning how little I actually know about this topic.  Recently God has been challenging me in many areas of this topic and pushing me towards growth. I am learning that discipleship is not just pointing out things that people are doing wrong, but pointing them to the […]

The last time I left you we had just been to a wedding in Dakar where we had the adventure of cooking on the roof.  The next week brought us another big wedding, but this time we were able to actually able to be spectators.  These weddings summarize for me a lot of how we […]