On Friday, I spent the day in our people group, visiting two new villages and stopping at a wedding on the way home. In many ways, the wedding reminded me of a wedding of a main world religion here in the city – dancing to the music of the balafone (like a xylophone). But there […]

Today I had a new first, and something that I don’t think would happen in many places around the world. On my way home from buying vegetables at the market, I stopped to look at some plates. There was a girl working at the little shop selling them, and she said that her mom was […]

On Friday, I sent out an e-mail update, and one of the prayer requests was for rain so that it would cool down around here. (If you’d like to receive my updates by e-mail and don’t yet, let me know and I’ll sign you up.) You must have prayed, since on Saturday morning a good […]

Sometimes it’s nice to have a boss. Or a director, like we have here. And sometimes it’s nice to actually see them in person, even if it takes a long, hot, and tiring 14 hours to get to their house. Yes, I know what some of you are thinking – you’d love to be that […]

Recently I was in a village in my people group, and they were giving me some words and expressions in their language. One of them was “What is your name?” In their language it’s something like [vujisinindele]. But when we asked how you’d respond, they said that you could respond with the phrase, “My name […]