Category: Updates and News

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 […]

Life sure has gotten crazy the past few weeks/months. In a blink of an eye we have gone from normal life to everything on hold, waiting for a virus to pass. I look around and see so much fear and so much uncertainty. It hits people in different ways but so many, including myself, are […]

We love our church family here! I often don’t take the chance to share about our church as there are many other things going on. But our church is a big part of who we are and what we do. So, here is a small peek into our church. Our church is full of people […]

Our year will start with another bang this year as we host multiple conferences. We will be hosting a 2 week workshop on langauge and discourse. We will have 30 different participants from around our field. There are a lot of logistics that go into this and it promises to keep us on our toes. […]

2019 started with a bang as we welcomed 7 new missonaries to our field. It was the largest group we had ever recieved at once. Not long after 2 of our coworkers needed to return to their home country to help with sick or aging parent. This left us with a huge load on our […]