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Pray for Kafountine
Kafountine is more than a big village, but seems less than a little town. For me, it is really hard to describe the place. It is on the coast so you can find a few tourists there (and all of the things...
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Tabaski
Today Muslims all over the world are celebrating "Eid al-Adha" or the "Festival of the Sacrifice."In West Africa the festival is known as "Tabaski." It commemorates when Abraham, according to the...
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Happy Anniversary Gayle!
The greatest gift of my life has been the gift of Jesus Christ. He saved and transformed me, not because of me and what I did nor because of my merit or goodness, but because of His unyielding love and...
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Pray for Karongue
The director of the school in Karongue, Mr. Sane, and his class. Recently, we spent the day in a village called Karongue. Karongue is about 12 kilometers away from Diouloulou and Keba, one of the...
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Pray for Birassou Bodiankounda
Yaya with our family in his father's orchard. A little over a month ago our family was taking one of our afternoon walks through the village seeing friends and acquaintances, praying as we walked, and...
View ArticleGoing Where We Cannot Go
What can take the Gospel to local villages twice a week? Villages where we cannot go? The answer: the radio can! In villages with no electricity the local radio station is their link to what is going...
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"The old man is dead"
The text simply said, “The old man, Lamine Goudyabi, is dead.” We met Lamine about a week-and-a-half before I received the text. We were visiting with a friend in the village of Birassou Bodiancounda...
View ArticleGive Me the Joy!
Unfortunately, when many people think of Christianity they think of grumpy old men in three piece suits who sit around with scowls on their faces as they talk about the long list of things they don’t...
View ArticleI Can't Just Go On Eating Dinner
Twenty years ago the country of Rwandaexperienced horrors the likes of which we have no capacity to understand. Throughout the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16, 1994, over 800,000 Tutsis and...
View ArticleA Hospital Visit
We step over a large pile of burnt trash and walk by some people sitting on pieces of concrete blocks under a mango tree as my friend and I enter the “hospital” to see his father. This building in the...
View ArticleWaiting on the Rain
As May comes in we are feeling the daily increases in temperature. And as the temperature increases we are reminded that the rains are on the way and with them come the life giving water that the land...
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Want to Come to Senegal?
Tired of air conditioning and hot water? Frustrated always understanding everything that is being spoken to you? Bored with the same old culture that you grew up with and have already figured out? Why...
View ArticleInje nimamang kasanken kujoolaay!
“Inje nimamang kasanken kujoolaay” is Diola for, “I want to speak Diola!” As we work more and more in villages around Diouloulou that are totally Diola, there is a great need for us to use more Diola...
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Pray During Tabaski
Tomorrow Muslims all over the world will celebrate "Eid al-Adha" or the "Festival of the Sacrifice." Here in West Africa the festival is known as "Tabaski." It commemorates when Abraham, according to...
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Happy Anniversary Gayle!
Eighteen years ago today, when Gayle and I said, "I do," neither of us had any idea where the Lord would take our lives together. We were new Christians excited about our new life with the Lord and our...
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"I Don't Want to Be a Missionary!"
*(We originally blogged this over three-and-a-half years ago as our family was preparing to leave Idaho to go on the road to raise support for the mission field. We just recently shared this story with...
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When Termites Eat Your Mattress
On a seemingly daily basis we encounter….how shall we say it...opportunities to grow in patience and perseverance that could only happen here in Africa. Whether it’s the six minutetask at the...
View ArticleTwo Years Ago Today...
Two years ago today our family arrived in Senegal. We arrived to a new life, a new ministry, new challenges, and new adventures. We arrived holding loosely to our "plans" for ministry, anxious to see...
View Article730 Days in Senegal
Two years spent in Senegal translates out to 730 days. Just for fun, we tried to quantify what that experience was like. While some of these numbers are estimates (I mean let's be real, who actually...
View ArticleC’est comme ça
The phrase “c’est comme ça” in French literally translated means “it’s like that.” But when it is said with a shrug of the shoulders and a tilt of the head it conveys the idea: That’s just the way it...
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