Category: Updates and News

Here is a small picture of daily life as we get back into things… Back to normal life includes getting back into the habit of cooking from scratch, filtering water, watching our water tank levels, sweeping up dust constantly and all the fun tasks life brings. The boys are back a school in person, which […]

2 weeks ago we boarded a plane to return to Senegal. There were many unknowns of how travel would be during this pandemic, but God was gracious. Everything went smoothly from our COVID tests, to the our check in person, to all of our bags arriving safe and sound. It was as smooth of a […]

Our furlough has not quite gone as planned, but we have enjoyed the time here connecting with people in any way we can. Yet one aspect that has been challenging was making sure aspects of our ministry carried on in our absence. A lot of our plans for that fell through as travel was so […]

Over the past months, one thing that has been difficult was knowing what would happen with our return to the US this summer for furlough. At first we felt, “surely by then things will be open up”. Then as the time wore on and things kept changing in the wrong direction, the certainty dwindled. I […]

I never got a chance to tell you about the last trips we were able to take before things shut down. So here is a snap shot on those last few trips. Joel took our first trip of the year to Liberia. Our next trip was to Guinea. There we were visiting a team who […]

Behind us there is an empty lot where they have begun construction. We have had a front row seat to watch the action as they began with clearing the land and then laying out the plan for the foundation. It has been fun to see the whole process develop in front of us almost like […]

I love our personal gifts from God can be. He often sends us reminders that we are loved and that he cares for us. Our gift was a few hours away at a beach. Because of a holiday here the road was open for us to get the beach for an afternoon. We weren’t sure […]

January began with 2 and half week of workshops. This involved multiple families traveling to Dakar to participate in a workshop on aspects of langauge learning and security. It has been a while since we had so many from our field together. So a highlight for me was seeing all of these families have an […]

Just like many of your we have been learning to live with new realities. So what does the day look like for us. The boys are doing school from home, so the morning and early afternoon they are hard a work with their assignments. So far they have done amazingly well with this. I have […]

First of all we are doing well as whole. Senegal’s cases of the virus for the moment are lower and there hasn’t been any deaths yet. However that hasn’t stoped the fear from seeping in. We live in a country where sickness and death are a normal part of life, but the fears for outside […]