God is good. We made it back and forth to southern Senegal safely, and now I’ve even made it back to Burkina Faso. 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 […]