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(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 […]

Two weeks ago (or maybe three, now that it’s taken a long time to post this because of bad internet), I posted about an important thing that happened a year ago that day, and how long ago that seemed.  That was the coup d’etat. Today I want to post about something exciting that happened a […]

You know you’re in Africa when . . . . . . you go to a village and they give you a live rooster as a gift. . . . you get home and let the rooster run around your yard for a week because it’s not a woman’s job to kill it (hooray!!), and […]

The other day I was re-reading the story of Abraham and Isaac, specifically the part about when God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Only this time something touched me that hadn’t before, so I wanted to share it with you. You see, this time I was reading it in Jula. And when you […]

Thanks for your continued prayers for little Rachida with eye cancer. The last news that I have heard is that she is undergoing chemotherapy in the capital. She has finished 2 rounds already, and I hear that she has 4 more rounds plans in the next few months.  She has not had surgery to remover […]