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I’m sorry to say that this update isn’t as upbeat as the last one about Rachida. In the last update I said that there was hope with the doctor in the other country. He said he’d do more chemo and some laser treatment, and added that he’d have her seeing in 6 months. Well, now […]

When you read your Bible, you probably regularly come across words like “grace,” “love,” “God,” etc. But have you ever found a verse talking about nachos? Because when we translate the Bible into the language of My People, I think that it will talk about nachos! Yes, “nacho” is one of the new words that […]

Have you ever sat outside on one of those crystal clear summer nights and watched the stars? Have you ever been out in the country where the stars seem to shine so much brighter? I think that I saw the stars the brightest I ever have this last weekend, and I even got to sleep […]

  Grab the head with the grains. Cut it off. Grab. Cut. Grab. Cut. Make your way through the field. Grab. Cut. Grab. Cut. That’s what we were up to on Wednesday. Last week was the first time I ever helped cultivate millet, the grain you see us picking in the picture above. It was […]

I was able to get some updates on Rachida this week. But before I share them with you, I want to THANK YOU so much for praying! It’s been so encouraging to get so many messages both from people I know and people I don’t know saying that they’re praying for little Rachida and her […]

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 […]