Posted in 1, tagged Harding Internship, Life in Togo on July 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well, I”m just finally coming down off of the incredible conversational and activity-filled internship with 11 Harding Students and one ACU student…enough to actually have time and presence of mind to write a blog post! This summer was….I can’t find enough words. Philosophically and spiritually stimulating, full of testosterone (8 of our interns were guys), [...]
Posted in 1, tagged family, Life in Togo on May 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
When I take a step outside my life it seems that there is a constant colliding of worlds. But inside this life it is simply my world…a third world or third culture, to be more semantically articulate. Here’s a slice of the last 4 weeks of my life combining: Family, Kabiye Ministry, Team, Kabiye Church, and [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Life in Togo on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The first well in Lassa Tchou that David and friends Latte and Matthew began is finished!! Water is coming from the pump well and the villagers in Lassa Tchou, along with all of the rest of us, are rejoicing for this clean water that came with lots of physical effort but without much money! Click [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Life in Christ, Life in Togo, Personal Tidbits on April 2, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Any of those who live around me can tell you that for the past few weeks I have been fighting a difficult battle with depression. I call it battle because I have been fighting against a dark heaviness that seems to overwhelm me without warning and works tirelessly to crush my will to take joy in much of anything. [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Life in Togo, Ministry on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As many of you may have heard, we are beginning a partnership with a well drilling organization called Water For All. They work in partnering with nationals in third world countries to teach them how to create drilling rigs with a type of rope and pulley system (and other technical methods which I don’t understand as of [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Friends, Life in Togo on March 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The joys and the sorrows
The ups and the downs
The fighting to love as God would
The begging for wisdom and the other’s good instead of my own selfish gain in late night prayers
The laughter and just being together
The fulness of life
The sharpening and changing of bad attitudes
The giving of the benefit of the doubt
The trusting another [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Life in Christ, Life in Togo, Ministry on February 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I don’t remember ever feeling here in Togo like I did this past Thursday preparing and waiting for women to come to the ladies’ Bible study I’m beginning at our house. I was nervous, unsure, felt very vulnerable and I wanted so badly for so many of those I had invited to come. As I was [...]
Posted in 1, tagged family, Food, Life in Togo on February 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This might not look too exciting to some of you, but it’s a big deal for us!!! Our teammates Bryan and Brett just returned from Burkina Faso (the country that borders Togo to the north) with fresh strawberries and broccoli!! This is such a big deal because neither of these things are grown in Togo. [...]
Posted in 1, tagged family, Life in Togo on January 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Here is a picture of the viper that Dave had killed before I came home from school yesterday with Hannah and Elijah. It was coiled up in…..our living room…just inside the front door. The doors to both the front porch and our house were shut. Somehow this snake made it under both doors. Praise God [...]
Posted in 1, tagged family, Friends, Life in Togo on January 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I wanted to get this out on January 1st, but our internet has had so many problems again that it’s taken me days to get it fully uploaded.
Our family wishes all of you a Happy New Year! Instead of sending out a paper newsletter, we thought we’d post highlights from 2007 on our blogs. [...]
