The Copeland Ramblings/

Happy Mother’s Day!

Today is a very special day! It’s a day to recognize the mothers in our lives, their hard work, their devotion and their love. That is especially true in our family. One of Debra’s characteristics that I have truly loved since Canaan was born over six years ago is her incredible devotion and love towards [...]

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Newsletter Updates: Switch to Email

Despite our love for technology and how it can be used to share our ministry, the majority of our newsletter subscribers receive our news via paper newsletters. Over the next few months we’d like to see the majority of our newsletter recipients moved over to email. For the majority of people we’ve spoken to, it’s [...]

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A couple weeks in

Well, I’ve been working in the head office for New Tribes Mission Canada for a few weeks now. I’ve really appreciated seeing all the behind the scenes work that goes on to support our missionaries all over the world. I’m really enjoying the tasks God has given me, right now I’m working on the NTM [...]

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Ready for What’s Next

It’s been exciting to see us slowly adapt as a family to the changes that the Lord has brought into our lives. We are starting to feel a little more settled and ready to tackle what’s next. We are thankful for the time we have had since our return to recuperate as a family and process what [...]

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Spring 2012 Newsletter

It’s been far too long since our last newsetter so we would like to share with you what has been happening in our lives since our move back to Canada to continue work with New Tribes Mission Canada. We are excited to let you know what God has been doing in and through our lives! [...]

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Safe and Sound

 On Thursday night around 11pm we began our journey home to Canada. Our good friends the Rabes drove us to the airport for our 3am flight. The checkin went smoothly and before long we were waiting at our gate. Our visions of how the trip would go vanished when an airport employee found us and [...]

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Out With a Bang

Our time in Senegal is drawing to a close! Tomorrow we will be traveling back to Canada via Lisbon, Madrid and Brussels. Our preparations though have been anything but smooth as Senegal experiences unprecedented turmoil in the face of the upcoming elections. We moved out of our apartment and into the guesthouse early because of [...]

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Moving Day Eve

As my siblings and I used to say as children, “one more sleep!”. Tomorrow we move out of our apartment and into the NTM guesthouse. We have our apartment until the end of the month but we wanted time to do some repairs not to mention that there are rumors of demonstrations around town at [...]

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Quick Trip to Conakry

Late Tuesday night I returned home from a four day trip to Conakry, Guinea. It was very important to us that before our return to Canada I had the chance to get down there and greet our close friend Pastor Samuel Kondano and his church which hosted us during our time there. After a short [...]

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Dakar ✈ Conakry

This past week was officially my last week working at the NTM office in Dakar. I had a lot of projects to finish and with all the busyness I failed to mention on our blog that I’m taking a trip down to Conakry, Guinea! As most of you know, we started our African journey with [...]

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