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Welcome to hot season. In Jula, the name for the month of March is “the hot month.” The name for the month of April? “The really hot month.” It’s currently 89 degrees in my house. I went outside with my thermometer, and within 5 minutes in the sun it was up to 120 degrees and […]

I grew up in Wisconsin, the land of 4 seasons. During the summer, we could usually count the number of days that it hit 90 on our hands, and on those days my mom told us that if we were outside we should be getting wet – playing the sprinkler, jumping in a pool, etc. […]

Here are some pictures of last week in two different villages, where I accompanied the national women’s committees of my denomination a couple West African countries.  They say that a pictures paints 1000 words, so I won’t add too many more words.  Thanks for your prayers!

Yesterday I got to thinking and I realized that this “thing” we’re planning on doing has never before been done in the history of the world. No one has ever planted a maturing, growing church among our people group. They have among other, related people groups, but not our People. That means that there is […]

On Friday nights I’ve been teaching English to some people in my church. Many people here want to learn English, so this is a way to be a blessing to them. For the advanced class, part of the time we talk through Bible stories, and last Friday was the Tower of Babel. As I was […]

When you’re riding in a car with a new driver, you’ll notice that it’s not necessarily a smooth ride. Instead it’s often jerky: sometimes you feel like you’re at a standstill, then you jerk ahead just to slow down again. It’s after the new driver has gotten the hang of the gas and the break […]

In April of 2013, I wrote a blog post titled, “Dear Mr. Pole-Vaulter.” You can read it here: https://blogs.ethnos360.org/susie-l/2013/04/05/dear-mr-pole-vaulter/. I talked about how it would be easier to transport a pole for pole vaulting than a harp here, since I often see long poles on motos but never harps. However, that isn’t true anymore. I […]

Merry Christmas!  This Christmas time I was asked to make a short video about Christmas in My Country for my home church, and I’d like to share it with you, too, so you can get a glimpse of what celebrations of Jesus’ birthday will look like here.  It’s not the same as in the US! […]

You’ve heard of reading between the lines. But how about living between the lines? It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. I read a missions article recently, and one of the sentences read something like this: “In a few short years he learned the difficult language and planted a church.” What?!? It’s something […]

Ah, I love the weather in December here! It’s true that there is dust everywhere, but the temperatures are beautiful. It’s the first time I’ve seen temperatures as low as the 70s since I was in the US this summer. At night it can even get down into the 60s. So wonderful. Today I even […]