Category: Updates and News

Yesterday was Tabaski.  Tabaski is one of the biggest holidays here in Senegal and is quite the celebration.  Every family purchases a sheep to butcher and eat.  This year I feel like we finally mastered the “art of” Tabaski.  Last year we ran around trying to make it to every house we had been invited […]

6:30 – Wake up and Breakfast.  Ethan goes to the local boutique to pick up our bread while I cook some eggs and get their school bags ready. 7:30 – Off to School – Load up the car and head off to school, picking up a friend on the way 8 – Charge up Strength for […]

Sunday we gathered together as the body of Christ to celebrate the New Life of three individuals. Three Dear Friends all from different walks of life.  One was raised in a family that loves the Lord and two others were the first ever from their family to accept the Lord. Each Story was different, but each story […]

A Push to the Finish… This fall I have been making an effort to increase the amount of hours I get in French in hopes to make it to the end.  I still don’t know when that end will be.  For a while I had hoped for the end of the year, but I am […]

One of the things that has changed drastically for us when we moved to Africa was the amount of times our doorbell rings.  When we were in the states we would go usually all day without hearing the doorbell.  Those days here are rare for us. How many times does our Doorbell ring (just an […]

One thing that I have learned on this long voyage is that it is important to celebrate the small successes.  So every year we celebrate what God has done. It was a year of humbling ourselves and being willing to not only understand the culture that is around us but enter in and become a […]

Who Came The Teaching Activities Eating and Sleeping God Did Amazing Things This Weekend! 2-5 women came from each of the village churches around us, but many live in isolation without anyone there to mentor or encourage them.  You can only imagine what an encouragement this time was for them.  They returned home back to […]

If there were two words I could use to describe life where we live they would be predictably unpredictable.  Things always go wrong and problems always arrive, I just never quite know where those problems will come from.  Therefore there is no way to prepare for the problems that arise, but I just attempt to […]

A Glimpse into this Mother’s Heart Sending our kids off to school is never easy and especially not when that school is in another language.  I know that it is the best for them in the long run as they will know French and be better connected to life here, but it is still difficult […]

Day 1 Of Joel’s Trip: Here we go!?! Day 2 of Joel’s Trip: Payed an electricity bill for the first time, got supplies from our market, did 2 hours of French and took care of the boys…I can do this. Day 3 of Joel’s Trip: Took care of the boys and that was all I […]