Perplexed, but not in Despair

December 19, 2018

Thank you so much for praying for health as well as encouragement for us as we mentioned in our last update that we’d been going through some discouragement. It may sound strange in light of the news in the rest of this update, but we have felt your prayers. We certainly don’t always understand why […]

Merry Christmas!

December 18, 2018

Merry Christmas!! We are excited to have Savannah and Christina coming for Christmas! They will arrive on Friday for their school break. We will be missing our other 4 children and 3 grandchildren who are in the USA. Hope you have a very special time with family and friends! So very thankful for […]

Discourse Analysis – an example

December 17, 2018

As I’m working on my take-home final exam for my Discourse Analysis class, I thought I should take a break and give you a glimpse into what we’re learning. One thing we talk about in Discourse Analysis is Participant Reference. In regular-people terms, it means, “How do you introduce new characters into your story, keep […]

2 Weekends and 2 Weddings

December 17, 2018

Our first 2 weekends in December were surrounded with weddings. The first one took us down to the southern part of Senegal to see a coworker and friend get married. This past weekend our host family’s adopted daughter did the first 2 step in her wedding which is a traditional ceremony at our host families […]

Raft-building

December 14, 2018

I probably couldn’t build an actual raft to save my life. Not one that would actually float. But, as the mom of a third culture kid, I need to be able to build rafts quite often, albeit not a sea-worthy vessel, but a mental one. I need to be able to build Finn a mental/emotional […]

From this side of the ocean

December 14, 2018

Right now, we’re stateside. It’s a very different world than the one we left 5 months ago. We were radically different people when we arrived on these shores and we’ve continued to change after spending time here. I’m glad I’m not the same person I was 5 months ago. I was fragile and felt as […]

Praying for a miracle

December 14, 2018

We as a family are reeling and wondering what God is doing! Mark is going downhill as the cancer races through his body which is loaded with cancer. He had to be hospitalized yesterday due to the calcium spiking again. Mark’s desire is that God’s people pray for a miracle at this time. You […]

I got a brick!

December 13, 2018

Last week at church, we had a white elephant gift exchange. When my turn came, I chose to take my chances with an unopened gift. Digging through the weighty box, I uncovered an envelope of scratch-off lottery tickets … and a brick. Strategically wheeling and dealing, I also left church that night with an envelope […]

How did last week go?

December 12, 2018

How did last week go? It went great! Thanks for asking. We started off the week with a visit from Evelin from Germany. Evelin is on a short-term mission trip to help our mission organize our various library resources. She decided to take a break from the books and come and add a bit of […]

Update on Erick

December 11, 2018

Erick Update Erick, a young man from our village, was in an accident last Monday night here in the Philippines. He was taken to the local hospital where a CT scan was done. The doctors noticed a bleed in his brain and wanted him moved to a bigger hospital with more experienced doctors. Thankfully our […]