We had a sports day with our church. It was a great day of fellowship hanging out with friends and having fun together. I just absolutely love being part of the Body of Christ.
Our next task was to welcome 2 new missionary women to our field. Welcoming people to the field is always a joy as there is a great need for more workers. There is, however, a lot that goes into welcoming new missionaries to our field… First of all we need to get housing ready, which […]
We got home from the workshop and had a few last precious days with my dad, before he began his journey home. We didn’t really have much time to dwell on that as we turned around and packed for our next trip. We had some veteran missionaries who were back for a few months, were […]
One of the most important parts of these workshops we do, is the opportunity we have to gather our kids together. Missionary kids don’t have many opportunities to have something created just for them. Most of what they participate in life they are trying to adjust to and are the outsider in. Although it is […]
We try to have a gathering of the whole field of West Africa every 3 years. However on the “off” years, we try to host a training that would be beneficial to our teams. This year the training was on literacy. We had two teams ready to put together their literacy materials and another team […]
Before we get to our Literacy workshop, I wanted to share about an event that took place while my parents were here. We decided to host a party at our mission to thank our host families. It was the first time that we had done an event of the like that was solely for that […]
Summer break started for us with a visit from my parents and nephews, Jared and Isaac. It was beyond exciting! It was my parents second time here, but it was the first time for Jared and Isaac. It was fun to see our home through eyes of youth visiting for the first time. They were […]
It has been almost 2 months since my last post. I had so many good intentions to sit down and write, but the summer just flew by. It is hard to believe that it is at an end! It was a great summer, but one of the busiest we have had. This summer brought us […]