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It’s back to school time here in My Country. And you know that that means it’s school supply buying time, too. For the kids here who are sponsored through Compassion International, today was school supply day. Their parents came and picked up a backpack full of their needed school supplies for each sponsored child. (Sorry […]

God is good. We made it back and forth to another country safely, and now I’ve even made it back to My Country. Let me share with you a little bit about our PGA (People Group Assessment) trip. The pictures are in the next blog post. A few of the main goals of this PGA […]

Here are a few pictures from our recent PGA trip. Enjoy! =img1= Here we are meeting with one of the village elders Friday morning. He helped us understand a lot about the situation in that village. =img2= Here I am working on getting a word list on Friday afternoon. It takes a long time to […]

Since I was out in Tanzania for the PGA training, I decided to spend a week with a good friend from Houghton College and her husband – Maria and Eric. For those of you know Tanzania, they were interning at Neema Crafts. Staying with them, I was near Masumbo, where I had spent the semester […]

I’ve been in a lot of classes, but the one I had three weeks ago was very different. Most of the time in school you learn things for tests and general knowledge or to be known for some time in the future. But this was different. It was a week of intensive class to be […]

You know you’re a missionary when the following dialogue comes up in an evening conversation and you think nothing of it: Missionary 1: “Do you know of the store Wimbly?” Missionary 2: “Maybe. What country is it in?” Missionary 1: “South Africa.” Missionary 3: “Ahh, that’s right. I knew that I had seen a lot […]

“What you did was wrong and you need to apologize.” “If you hit him again you won’t get any candy later. You want candy, right?” Which of the two above responses to the misbehavior of a child sounds like good parenting to you? Likely the first one. But here, people would likely choose the second […]

As you know if you’ve been reading my blog, I moved into my own little house almost a month ago. I finally organized it enough to be willing to take pictures to show you all. My house consists of the living room, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. Yes, there is a shower in the bathroom (no […]

It is situmu season. From the picture, can you tell what situmu are? They are caterpillars! And yes, those caterpillars were in a pot on my stove. But no, I did not try them. A friend asked if she could cook them at my house. There are lots of people here who really enjoying eating […]

Life doesn’t always happen like you planned it. That’s why last Tuesday I headed off to camp with a group of Sunday school kids! I was in the middle of my Jula class when the pastor asked if I could chaperone the camp on the other side of town. They realized they needed another chaperone […]