Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Harding Internship, Life in Togo, Ministry on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve had a great time this past week learning to make soap from liquid strained off of ashes and cooked down mixed with oil from palm nuts. Some of the Christian ladies in the Soumdina Po Wayi church taught myself, Brett, April, and some of our interns how to make soap Kabiye-style. This is the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Harding Internship, Life in Togo on June 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We’ve been having a wonderful time hosting Kacy Meadows, Sky Vanderburg, Travis Trull, and Alan Lee in our home over the past 10 days. They are a wonderful group of guys and have each been a joy to get to know! They have helped David make latrine covers for latrines that the interns will dig in a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, Marriage on June 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
June 4th marked our 13th wedding anniversary. David is a wonderful, Godly man and I am so very blessed to call him my husband. This picture was taken during our anniversary trip to Colorado to celebrate our 10th anniversary (which was actually after our 11th, but during these years of small children and two year furloughs, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Miscellaneous Thoughts on June 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I am a relationally minded person. Because I’ve been a part of a mission team for 10 years now, we’ve taken a few personality profiles, formally affirmed one another’s strengths, been painfully made aware of our own weaknesses, and continue to become more self-aware as we live in a setting with a very limited number of daily physical relationships [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family on June 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hannah ( and Elijah (6) have always enjoyed drawing, painting, “crafts”, and creating “sculptures” from leftover boxes and cans. Hannah once informed me that she was a “trash collector”. (She also proclaimed earlier this year that she was “mentally ill” because she couldn’t think as quickly on her feet that day during school!) I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family on June 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What’s happening with Caleb right now: Belly crawling, venturing forth a few paces on his hands and knees, “chewing” on his thumb, two top teeth and one bottom tooth, all in front shining brightly! Saying “Mama” “Dada” “Done-Done” (when he’s ready to get out of his high chair), very high pitched screaming when no one [...]
