Category: Updates and News

Yesterday was an incredibly long and tiring day.  Cecil invited me to a big cultural event at a local village.  Joel had a meeting in Dakar all day that left him coming home at 11 pm in the evening.  Katie was home with the kids in a day that ended with her breaking down the […]

Friday was the closing ceremony of the month long African Missionary Training that we were blessed to be a part of.  It was the end of the month of classes, but only the beginning of the training we hope to be able to offer.  The ceremony was very encouraging and we left praising God for […]

Joel and I have come to Africa because we believe in the importance of people hearing God’s Word in their heart language.  About six months ago it struck me that the same was true for us.  There is just something important about being feed in our heart language. However what hit me the most was […]

High – Making a plan for next month. Low  – Watching that plan disappear before my eyes   High – Having a great meeting with our host family about the progress we have made and what goals we wanted to set for the future. Low – Being asked why I don’t learn languages as well as my husband (in […]

Another Week – Another Lesson We are blessed to have a water tank.  Really we have two, one for normal use and one for when water is really bad.  Not everyone in our neighborhood is that lucky, so when there is no water we often have neighbors and friends come by to fill up buckets of water.  […]

The Training Has Begun! We are now two days into the training and it is going great.  Joel has taught one class each day and has felt like they both went well.  We are excited for this month and know that God is at work! Surviving On the Other End On the home front it […]

We are so excited to be part of NTM’s first missionary training taking place in Dakar for African Believers!  A week ago there were 8 candidates and now there are 15.  It has been so amazing watching as God has worked to put together all the details of this training.  The training will be for the whole […]

Our Language Helper Awhile ago we were praying for God to direct us to a good language helper.  God did just what we asked.  We have been blessed to have a language helper who is not only patient and helpful, but also one who loves the Lord.  Moussa is a man from our local church. […]

We celebrated Ethan this week as he turned 6.  This past year was a big year for Ethan with a lot of landmarks.  Here are some of the ways Ethan has grown this past year…. We taught Ethan through God’s story this year.  He loves Bible time! He went from not speaking French to correcting […]

Today we start our next language.  The first month of a new language is always the hardest.  The process of building a foundation for a new language is very exhausting.  We are excited to learn one more language through which we can share God’s truth with, but not looking forward to all the work that […]