A View From Above…

July 8, 2011

Ok, so it’s not really a view from above. It’s a view from our balcony. I walked around our house and took some pictures from the balcony. I wanted to post them, but then reconsidered as a safety precaution. At the current time, we have a pretty small ‘area of familiarity’. It is the area […]

URGENT NEED! We found our house! (pictures coming soon…)

April 18, 2011

URGENT NEED! Good morning family, friends, and partners in ministry. We HAVE FOUND A HOUSE! We are so excited at what the Lord has opened for us! We have bartered with the owner and he is willing to accept $1,000 per month, which is quite a wonderful bargain for what we are getting. The only […]

Housing Update

March 31, 2011

Habari za jioni marafiki wangu wote! Good evening all my friends! This is a brief update on a couple of hot topics. Our language training is going very well! We feel like we are absorbing so much. It feels almost miraculous. God has made us with minds and tongues that are absorbing Swahili apparently, so […]

A World of Difference

March 16, 2011

Hujambo! Karibu! That means Hello! Welcome! These are two phrases we have become familiar with since our arrival in Tanzania. We have taken a ride from end of the spectrum of emotions all the way to the other end, and it hasn’t even been two weeks yet! We got set up in some temporary living […]

Knowing Peace

February 16, 2011

It’s difficult to really capture one’s emotions and splatter them onto paper (or a computer keyboard). Our family is just 14 days away from departing for Tanzania. There is a range of emotions that we are feeling, but every day the Lord blesses us with peace. It is a wonderful feeling…knowing that He is taking […]

50 pages; 26 days

February 4, 2011

Hello Everybody! Well, we finally got our visa applications in. The good news is that it only cost us half of what we thought it would cost us! The other good news is that we had almost all the paperwork that we needed with us in order to get our applications in. Our application package […]

New Year Update

January 4, 2011

Alabama…we made it! Well, what a whirlwind of activity our last few weeks have been. We finished Pageant. We packed up our stuff and cleaned up the house we had been house-sitting since June. We had Christmas at Rob’s Mom and Dad’s. We neatly (yeah right) put most of our stuff into storage while we […]

WE HAVE TICKETS!!! (and luggage…)

December 26, 2010

Hi Everybody! We have our tickets to Tanzania! After working for weeks with a travel agency that specializes in missionary travel, we have purchased our tickets. As it turns out, the five of us can each have two checked bags (up to 50 lbs) and a carry on. They also allow a stroller and car […]

Travel Costs

December 10, 2010

Now for the fun part!!! We want everyone to know how exceptionally, exceedingly, abundantly, awe-inspiring our God is! The Pastor challenged the church to raise the funds to cover the cost of our tickets. Putting it into perspective, we are expecting the tickets, taxes, baggage fees, etc, to push the cost over $4,000. Some of […]

Our Ordination and Commissioning

November 19, 2010

Hello brothers, sisters, friends, co-laborers! Well, last Sunday was a very special day. Amy and I went to church early on Sunday in order to meet with the Pastors and Deacons; they got to hear all about our desire to reach Tanzania and they prayed over us. This was the first in a series of […]