Baptisms!
On Sunday we celebrated baptisms at our church. This was the first time we have had them since our arrival. Being baptized in a muslim country is not easy. If you have a Muslim family and support network and you switch to Christianity, you will likely be cut off from everything… housing, food, work. Life [...]
Read onKidney Stones
Norm woke me up Wednesday morning saying that something was wrong. I jolted awake… which is far from normal at 6 am. He told me he was having some really horrible pains in his stomach. He asked me if I wouldn’t mind getting the kids off to school by myself this morning. Obviously I didn’t [...]
Read onHappy 5th Birthday Canaan Joshua!!!
Our sweet little Canaan is turning 5 tomorrow! What a big boy he has become. He is so tender, loving, selfless, and absolutely hilarious! He loves to entertain us and make us laugh, he loves to give us hugs and kisses when we are sad or hurt. He is learning so very much in school [...]
Read onFun was had by all!
We had such a wonderful time with Gramma and Papa Copeland here. It was such a nice time to relax and spend time together. We enjoyed showing them around Dakar… taking them to our favourite places. Then the second week they were here we spent four days down in a small touristy town about 1.5 [...]
Read onGramma and Papa are here!
Papa and Gramma Copeland are here. We are so excited to have family here. Some times it feels so normal and others is so strange mixing our life in Africa with our life from back at home! Its so cool! They have been trying to adjust to our constant power outages. But they are troopers [...]
Read onHome Sweet Home
We have been having massive power cuts the last couple of weeks, and even worse the last few days. We haven’t had much time to get online! =( Such a bummer. But I really wanted to put up a couple of pics of our new apartment. We are pretty well set up and are verrrrrrry [...]
Read onChristmas is coming!
This year, Christmas feels so strange to us. We have no immediate family near us, nor are we going to see any family for Christmas. We see no snow. Its NOT cold… (although it does feel cool compared to the hot season! What a relief!!!) Its not rainy. We don’t hear Christmas music… on the [...]
Read onSome one is TWO!
Emmaus turned two on Thanksgiving day! Its hard to believe he is already 2! His birthday was on Thanksgiving day, which was a full day of classes, studying and then a potluck dinner. So we decided to celebrate the day before. When the boys got home from school, we had Emmaus’ presents out waiting for [...]
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