Tickets Bought!
I finally have tickets for my trip to Guinea next week. It was some what of a last minute trip but I was able to obtain visas quickly (in less than 48 hours from starting to fill out the application) and buy decently priced tickets. We praise the Lord for the support necessary to make [...]
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As many of you have heard, we now have tickets for our family to fly to Senegal. Our tickets are for April 24th from LA to Dakar Senegal. We praise the Lord that these tickets did not cost us anything extra. When we left Guinea late last October we bought round trip tickets expecting that [...]
Read onMore Geocaching
Incase you hadn’t noticed, one of our newest hobbies is geocaching. We’ve been squeezing as much of it in as possible while we are in North America. There are a handful in West Africa but not too many. We had fun geocaching in Canada too, but I have to admit, it’s a bit more pleasant [...]
Read onMissions Conference
Last sunday we had a great opportunity to be a part of a missions conference at a church here in Camarillo. We were excited to share with their kids and high schoolers about missions and God’s heart for people everywhere. In the morning we presented to two classes of young kids between the ages of [...]
Read onUnexpected Christmas
We are now in Canada and almost daily  we do something, see something or someone and I think back to August 4th when we left for Guinea. There were many things and people we thought we wouldn’t see for many years, but here we are! God has had different plans for us and we’ve had [...]
Read onFlying to Canada
Well, I thought that it’d be four years before facing the snow once again but here we are! Tomorrow morning we leave for the airport for our flight to Canada. Though we aren’t excited about flying again, a little trip to Canada doesn’t seem so bad! We can’t wait to see our Canadian family again, [...]
Read onNTM Guinea Press Release
Below is a press release concerning the recent events in Conakry, Guinea. Thank all of you so much for your support during this time. It hasn’t been easy to leave our home and new Guinean friends but we our confident that the Lord is in control of all of this. Press release: On Thursday evening [...]
Read onGeocaching
Today Debra and I went Geocaching for the first time. Geocaching is basically a global scavenger hunt involving GPS. A geocache can be hidden by anybody and can contain about anything. You go to www.geocaching.com, find out if there are any geocaches in your area and then use the GPS coordinates to find it. Some [...]
Read onEmmaus’ Birthday Pictures
We had a blast last week celebrating Emmaus’ birthday. Here are a few pics of Emmaus enjoying his very own cake: More birthday pictures here
Read onHappy Birthday Emmaüs!
Today is Emmaus’ first Birthday! We’re shocked and amazed at how fast his first year of life has gone by, but equally surprised at how much has happened in that short time. Emmaus has lived in four different places in three countries since his birth! To celebrate this milestone Debra made a couple of gorgeous [...]
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