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 [...]
Read onQuick 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 [...]
Read onDakar ✈ 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 [...]
Read onBig Changes – Newsletter
This week we mailed out a very important newsletter to our friends and family regarding our future. Even if you do not regularly receive our newsletters, we encourage you to take the time to download our newsletter found below and read it. We have also included a letter addressed to you, our supporters, from our [...]
Read onHappy Birthday from Afar
Today is the 27th birthday of my beautiful wife, Debra Lynn! This year, however, her birthday is unique though not necessarily in a good way. That is because for the first time since our wedding we are not together to celebrate her birthday! Nevertheless, I am thankful that she is with her family in California [...]
Read onCanada Bound with Stones
While it may seem to some that I just got back to Senegal, for me it seems like it has been FOREVER since I left California and more importantly since I left Deb and the boys. Thankfully, I will be seeing them next week! I leave for my short Canadian trip next Wednesday. Not only [...]
Read on(Heading) Back Home
It won’t be long before I’m back at home in Senegal. I’m in the middle of my first flight, it’s a short one to the East coast thankfully. Debra wasn’t even out the front doors of the airport before I was realizing how much I will miss her and the boys, but I know that [...]
Read onStoned!
Well, it has definitely been the week of stones. After my little kidney stone incident last week I’d been looking forward to getting busy preparing for our upcoming trip to the US. But today was not what I expected! Our mission’s Senegalese headquarters/guest house is situated across the road from the main university campus in [...]
Read onLess than 3 weeks
In less than three weeks we begin our summers adventures. Three weeks doesn’t seem long but we have a lot to do before our flight leaves on June 3rd. Right now we are getting used to and adjusting to big changes. I (Norm) have begun working full time at our mission’s headquarters which is exciting [...]
Read onA year ago today…
It was late in the evening, April 25th 2010, that we arrived in Dakar Senegal. I remember sitting in the hallway of our new apartment for most of the night with a jet-lagged one year old as the mosque across the road trumpeted the call to prayer for what seemed like all night. Just like [...]
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