Tickets 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 [...]
Parc Forestier de Hann
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 [...]
MV 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 [...]
Summer 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.
Have a new address?
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 [...]
Lutte 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 [...]
Sounds 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 [...]
Stowaways
I can’t believe this is our first post since arriving! It definitely feels weird arriving as a ‘new missionary’ all over again. We do thank the Lord though for our three months of experience in Guinea which have already helped us immensely during our first week and a half in Senegal. We were definitely more [...]
You were prayed for!
Last night before supper the prayer group from our church in Enta came over to pray for my travels, our move to Senegal and all of the other things going on. I have to tell you, it was very encouraging! I appreciated that their prayers were very God focused, talking about his attributes, characteristics and [...]
Mission Accomplished!
One of my goals for this trip to Guinea was to sort and pack up our belongings before sending them on a flight to Senegal. Let me tell you, it was a lot of work! Thankfully, that is done and over with. On Monday we took everything to the airport where it was stored until [...]
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