Five Days in Conakry
Our time here in Conakry stands in stark contrast to our time up country. Before coming to Conakry we visited four different villages that speak four different languages and have distinct cultures. Most of the villages we visited were pretty relaxed which makes the hustle and bustle of Conakry jump out at us that much more. [...]
The Boké Market
Today was our last day at the missions base of Hamdallaye. We spent the morning in the Boké Market, a nearby town. Debra and I visited some leather workers and carpenters, both of which were exremely skilled and had plenty for us to look at. The bartering system was something to get used to. Although [...]
Renovations
We’ve spent a lot of time this week with Pete & Faith Olver. Pete & Faith are fairly new missionaries to Guinea and are moving to the base here in Hamdallaye to support the missionaries in the tribe. Pete has been working on fixing up an older house for he and his family to move [...]
African Villages
Today we arrived back on the mission base after three days of travelling and visiting a few tribal villages. On Saturday we drove to a Tanda tribal village, the ride out there was a lot of fun! We piled into Jim Sheffield’s big Landcruiser and he slowly navigated his way down the tiny, pitted dirt [...]
Happy Birthday Norman!!
Today is Norman’s 25th birthday!! Things are pretty crazy traveling around and everthing but I really want to make sure you all know its his birthday! I am the luckiest woman in the world to have Norman as my husband. He is an amazing father and friend.  Norman, Thank you for all you do for [...]
Across Europe and on to Africa
Well, as you may have guessed, we are finally here! We arrived in Guinea in around 9:15 Wednesday evening. Thanks everyone for your comments on our last post, it was a great encouragement! The night after we wrote our last post (Tuesday night) Debra and I fell asleep quickly, we were exhausted. Canaan feel asleep [...]
Stranded in Brussels
The past 24 hours have left me confused as to what the day and time really is but I’ll try my best to keep things straight. We boarded our flight at JFK for Conakry (with a brief planned layover in Brussels) around 5pm Monday evening and quickly got ourselves situated in our seats. The Lord [...]
First Stop: NYC
 Last night at 10:30pm we finally arrived here in NYC. It was a long day, we left home around 8:30am and got to the border at about 10:30am. We waited there for well over an hour before we were on our way. Somewhere in New York we stopped to get fuel and suddenly someone was [...]
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