Our Seventh Anniversary
Two weeks ago we celebrated our seventh anniversary. Debra was just getting over strep throat but still wanted to get out together. We headed downtown for some ice cream but what would an anniversary date be without a little Geocaching? There unfortunately aren’t many geocaches in Senegal, but there was one placed downtown last fall [...]
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This week we received another reminder that simple things aren’t always so simple here. On Friday we were getting ready to head to the conference when I discovered that our car key wouldn’t go all the way into the ignition! It turned out that it also wouldn’t go into the car door. It’s strange because [...]
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This past week we participated in our first field conference with NTM. Since most of our missionaries work all over the country, the conferences are a great way to get updated on the church planting works, spend time worshiping the Lord together and just hang out! It’s somewhat humerous that this is our first conference. [...]
Read onTickets to California & Canada
As most of our friends and definitely our family know, we recently had a couple of engagements! Deb’s sister Critter got engaged as well as my brother Ken. This means we have to weddings to get two this summer! One is in June while the other is in July. This is not an easy task [...]
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Canaan and Emmaus just finished a week long break from school. Even though Deb and I continued our classes we made time each day to get out with the kids. Canaan would have been happy to play at the house all day long but after just a few hours in doors Emmaus seems to go [...]
Read onMV Le Joola
Today is the 8th anniversary of the sinking of the MV Le Joola, one of the largest ever peacetime maritime disasters. On September 26th, 2002 a Senegelese ferry travelling from the Casamance (southern region of Senegal) to Dakar capsized off of the coast of The Gambia. This disaster resulted in the deaths of at least [...]
Read onSummer 2010 Newsletter
Last week we mailed (and emailed) out our most recent newsletter! While we try to utilise online tools as much as possible to share our ministry, I really do enjoy writing and mailing paper newsletters. In case you didn’t receive it and are interested, it can be downloaded here. Share this:Share
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Tomorrow we hope to send out a new newsletter. Before we click send, we’d like to know if you have a new or updated address you’d like to let us know about. If so, you can email us directly or use this form. Also, if you do not currently receive our newsletters, feel free to [...]
Read onLutte Sénégalaise (Senegalese Wrestling)
Today is a major day in the Senegalese sports world. This afternoon there will be a wresting match between rivals Balla Bèye II and Balla Gaye II. Depending on who you talk to here, Senegalese wrestling is even more popular than soccer. Images of major wrestlers are plastered all over the place. They’re on walls [...]
Read onSounds of Dakar
Of the millions of changes we’ve encountered since our arrival, we are often struck by the many sounds which are so strange or foreign to us. One that we noticed right away (well, about 5am our first morning in Senegal) is the call to prayer (see recording below). There is a mosque directly across the [...]
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