I have news on two fronts for Rachida, the little girl with retinoblastoma eye cancer! First of all, she is still in another country with her grandma. I called her grandma today, and she said that there they are doing chemotherapy again, then after that they have a laser that they’ll use to remove the […]

                              I thought you might enjoy some more pictures of my village. The internet is super slow today so I can’t figure out how to write captions with each one, but I figure you’d probably prefer to at least see the […]

My village. In my last e-mail, I was using made-up names for the different villages we were considering moving into, and now I don’t have to anymore! Let me tell you the real names of “Goofy” and “Bridge,” the two villages we were considering: “My village,” and “The village 3 miles away.” Yes, that means […]

(NOTE: This was written on September 27th, but never posted on my blog. Sorry that it’s so late!) Thanks so much for your prayers this last week!  I have to admit that it was an exhausting week full of long days of meetings and village visits, but it was very good.  We learned a lot […]

We did it! We visited all 17 of the main villages of our people group. We’ve also visited some smaller villages of our people group and another village that belongs to another ethnic group smack dab in the middle of the territory of our people group. Now we’re at the point of deciding which one […]

Well, I have good news!  The missionary doctor who brought Rachida’s CT scans to the US has an appointment with a leading retinoblastoma (the type of eye cancer Rachida has) specialist tomorrow morning!  That’s at 10 am eastern time, Monday morning, October 24.  She asked for prayer for wisdom and discernment, so I told her […]

The other day we spent the night in a village in our people group. While there, we wanted to take the opportunity to start to learn their language and to work on using the few words we knew. You see, from previous trips into our People Group we had learned about 20 words plus some […]

Again, thanks so much for your prayers for little Rachida. This isn’t an easy thing to go through or a cut-and-dry situation, so it takes wisdom in knowing how to walk through this time with this family. And no, this picture is not a picture of Rachida. It’s a picture of what COULD happen if […]

I think this is the epitome of what life looks like when you live somewhere between two different worlds – pizza take-out on the back of a moto! It was my first pizza take-out in my city, and it was quite fun. I think I’ll have to do it again sometime. No, the pizza isn’t […]