The Rock Beach
Check out these pictures from one of our new favourite places! Please pray for our new friends at the “Rock Beach” as Canaan calls it. We pray that through our love and friendship they would get a glimpse of the love from the one true God! Share this:Share
Read onGetting better!
Thank you for your prayers! Emmaus is on the road to recovery. He is not on antibiotics and seems to be slowly getting better! Praise Jesus! He was tested for malaria just to be sure and it was negative! He is still grumpy and coughing but we can tell he is slowly getting better. His [...]
Read onEmmaus is sick
Please pray for health in our family! Emmaus has been battling a fever for about 5 days now. He has a bad cold or flu with lots of congestion, coughing and a runny nose. Poor little guy is miserable! Canaan has had some sniffles on and off but not too bad. I have had a [...]
Read onFrom above!
Its amazing how peaceful our city looks from above! What a difference it is on street level! What a difference! Wednesday, Norm and I went out looking for a geocache. Our first here in Dakar! =) We hike to the top of a big hill to a lighthouse and we had such a great view! [...]
Read onSchool!
Hey All! Thanks so much for praying for us and the boys. They have been to school six days now. They are starting their second full week in the morning. The first two days of school, Canaan was ecstatic and Emmaus was freaked out! Emmaus would cry and cry getting onto the bus and his teachers would [...]
Read onThe kids are starting school!
Much to our surprise, God led us to a bilingual private school here in Dakar. We were not planning on sending the kids to school this year. But he has been showing us that with our French studies and with living in an apartment on the 4th floor, the kids were needing more! They need [...]
Read onWaking up!
Lord bless our children! They tend to be sleep in type kids. Usually. Saturday morning we had a meeting at the mission… and we had to be there by 9. We decided at 8:30 it was about time we go in a force the kids out of bed. Granted… they usually get up around 8, [...]
Read onWatermelon season has arrived!
These photos don’t do it justice. Driving by this part of town is just incredible. The hills are covered in piled up huge watermelons. And every fruit stand is packed with them. And when I say every fruitstand… in Dakar there are thousands of fruit stands. I can’t even fathom how many watermelons are in [...]
Read onPastèque
Today we went to a local “fruit market.” We bought a bunch of great stuff, grapefruit, mandarine oranges, mangoes, bananas and a watermelon (or pastèque). We were pretty sure the watermelon would be a hit with the kids… here are a few pictures and videos to prove! I love it when cameras catch funny faces! [...]
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