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Within 48 hours of arriving back home in Wisconsin from the wedding, I was out east!  I went to share more about what God is doing in My Country at a church in Virginia and with others out that way, but I also got to see good friends and have fun while I was at […]

Many people have asked how Easter dinner went. Well, on Saturday afternoon when I got home, the two goats were hanging in the tree right outside my window getting skinned. I decided that was a good time to sit in my living room and work on e-mail. 🙂 But on Sunday I was able to […]

Ok, so I just posted about all of the cuts around town. As soon as I finished the post I read the facebook status of another missionary here in town. She said that the gas trucks are on strike (hence the gas cut?), the border/customs officials are on strike, and the soda bottling company. There […]

Have you thought about what you’re having for Easter dinner yet? I know what the pastor’s family here is having. From the picture, can you guess? Yes, a month ago the pastor came back from a week away with these two goats, saying that they were much cheaper there and that they’d make a great […]

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 […]