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The streets here in town can be scary and even dangerous (though not all the time). But there are ways that you can be neighborly when you’re on the road. Here are a few of them: 1. If you are going somewhere with a large group of people, and you’re the only one on your […]

Still no surgery. I’ll keep you updated. Today I called my friend Fatoumata (Rachida’s great-aunt) to ask her what was happening. I couldn’t call Rachida’s grandma, Kadi, since she has stopped calling the family that’s with Rachida in the capital awaiting surgery, since otherwise she cries too much. Fatoumata didn’t have any phone credit so […]

Well, the latest is that Rachida’s surgery is rescheduled for tomorrow. It’s still to remove both her eyes. Pray that it will actually be done so that she and the whole family can move on to think about healing and how to move forward. Pray that it would be done well, would remove all the […]

Thanks so much for your prayers, everyone. But this is My Country, and things take longer than you’d think. So even though she was scheduled for surgery at 8am this morning, it got postponed as she had to have more blood work first. Last I heard is that they’ll schedule it when the results of […]

Thank you so much for your prayers for little Rachida! It’s been a long month of riding this roller coaster and not knowing what’s going to happen, but this week I got news that a decision has been reached. On Thursday she’s scheduled to have surgery here in country to remove both of her eyes. […]

I think you’ll agree that the girl in the picture is a pretty cute kid, even though she’s making a mess eating (hence why her cute dress was taken off). But if you look closely, you may be able to see what’s making her life difficult and her mom’s life miserable at the moment. Do […]

Sometimes we’re called to do things that we aren’t necessarily qualified for and we never expected. Here are a few of the different hats I wore this last weekend: – Medical assistant – I took a friend, her daughter-in-law, and her 20-month-old granddaughter to the clinic on Saturday morning to see what’s wrong with her […]

Sometimes I have slow internet, sometimes I have decent internet. These last few days it has been slow. For example, I’ve been trying to download some sermon podcasts off of itunes. I only have one left, and it only has 5mb left (which is only about the size of a digital picture from a good […]

They say that when you move to the other side of the world you have to learn a new language to be able to make sense out of the world around you and to be able to communicate with those around you. I agree. But there’s more than that. There’s a huge monster called “culture” […]

How much stress do you deal with in your daily life? Probably a lot, if you’re like most Americans. How much stress do I deal with in my daily life? Quite a bit, if I’m like most missionaries. I recently re-came across this blog article about stress that missionaries face: blogs.ethnos360.org/brian-pruett/2012/03/23/just-how-stressed-are-missionaries-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/. It basically says that […]