Category: Updates and News

The past two years in Africa have transformed my understanding of relationships and particularly my role in relationships.  When I was in the states relationships were easier and more natural  as I rarely had to cross cultural barriers to form them.  So I invest in the relationships that I was most comfortable in and in […]

Friday night I headed over to help with food preparation of a wedding that was to take place the following day.  This was my 3rd wedding in a few months, so by now I knew well my role and responsibilities.  I arrived on Friday and quickly began peeling and chopping veggies.  All the women from […]

Clean Out my French Bag  – Look at the tattered notebook with my 7328 new words and wonder if it should be framed or burned. Organize – I cleaned the boys art stuff which hasn’t been gone through since Katie was here, almost a year ago! Down Time – I am not really sure what […]

Yesterday I met with our language consultant and he said that I have reached the needed level of French!  Woot!!!! After 2 years of work it was kinda surreal to hear these words.  There were moments on this journey that I thought this moment might not ever come and yet it was finally here.  This […]

We thank God for the gift of Ethan!  We have enjoyed watching him grow and change and marvel at how much progress he made.  As we held a party for his birthday it was fun to see our whole family now interacting together in French since most of his friends speak French more than English. […]

Last weekend I packed up some things and took off into a car with Cecil for a weekend wedding out at her home village.  There are thousands of things I could share with you from my weekend, but I will try to keep the recount as simple as possible. FRIDAY We arrived Friday evening while […]

Even with all the adventures we have had, I still get nervous when we face the next.  Not nervous about whether we will make it through, but what it will require to make it to the other side.  Butterflies still mount as I prepare to leave.  A night in the village with our host family, […]

It is about time I shared with you some of Joel’s pictures from his trip to Burkina Faso.  These are long overdue, but life threw us a few curve balls with sickness.  So they might be late, but better late than never.

We enter you with a back log of exhaustion Your cool air is refreshing It would be nice if you returned us all to health You are a puzzle whose pieces don’t seem to all fit together Just past you lies a month which looks delightfully empty First, however, we must make it through the […]