Tag: New Tribes Mission

The Most Fun Thing From the Past Few Weeks…. We spent 4 days away at the beach to get some much needed down time.  We were able to do puzzles, play in the ocean, have family game time and so much more! A First in the Past Few Weeks… A family vaccination run for some […]

From Ivory Coast the group split and only Joel and one other guy continued on to Liberia.  When first plans were being made for this trip they were going to drive into the village and then back out to continue back to Senegal.  However because of Ebola and the complications of that the boarder between […]

Joel along with other members of our leadership team took a long road trip to visit some of our works that are farther out.  They decided to do this by road as it would allow them all to go and allow for multiple stops.  It was a three day drive through three different countries, but […]

Half way through the trip we got the opportunity to share at the believers meeting.  At the meeting there were 4 men and 2 women and the kids that came a long with them.  It was such a small group compared to the size of the village.  There were some ways that you could look […]

We wake up at a quarter to 4 in the morning to hit the road.  We are driving down to the southern part of Senegal.  I bring the boys out to the car in their blankets so that they can continue to sleep.  Being the morning person in our family I take the first round […]

New Arrivals We welcomed a new family to the field, which means getting their apartment ready.  This begins with moving the family currently living in their apartment, the apartment that we use for our new arrivals usually for the first 6 months they are here.  So we first had to find a host church and […]

When we first started going to our church here, I started going up to Sunday School with my boys.  I went with them because I wanted to help them integrate into our church and I knew they would be most comfortable with me around.  It also provided that added advantage that the teaching was at […]

This month we watched 1 family and 2 singles complete their time in Dakar and move on to their next location.  The family moved to a location 3 countries away where they will work in a really remote village among a people who are in need of Gods truth.  We were there 2 years ago […]

I can hardly believe that Ethan has turned 9.  It was a big year for him.  The 3 months in states that Ethan had at English speaking schools really helped build up his confidence in studying.  Since there he has done much better at school here and is actually more at the top of his […]