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 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 Life in Christ, Ministry on February 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have been challenged lately as I think about prayer. I have had seasons in my life where I have talked to God almost constantly throughout the day. I have also had seasons where I struggle to get out any words to the Lord and still others where the last thing on my mind is praying [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Life in Christ, Life in Togo, Ministry on December 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This past weekend marked the first annual Area-Wide Kabiye Ladies Retreat for the Christians in our movement. The Christian Ladies of Lassa Tchou hosted the event and it was attended by representatives from 7 different churches in the region. There were about 20 women who participated in all. I had the great pleasure of being able to [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Life in Christ, Life in Togo, Ministry on October 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
outside of marriage, that is.
I spent the afternoon out in the village of Lassa Tchou today and taught my first lesson in years that was exclusively for women. When my teammates Jane and Andrea and I began teaching women’s lessons for evangelism, or with church maturation, more than 5 years ago we used to ask the men to leave and we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Life in Togo, Ministry on September 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I wanted to post an update about the three children down our street who have suffered so much over the past couple of months. I am happy to report that our houseworker, Aimee, has befriended the mother and they have had lots of talks about what it means to care for children and how Jesus [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Life in Togo, Ministry on July 1, 2007 | 9 Comments »
The past few days in our home have been full of emotional drama. Tuesday morning, our houseworker Aimee asked if she could show me something. To my horror she displayed approximately 2 meters of blue nylon cord that had been cut off the hands, feet, and necks of two girls down the street who had [...]
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 Life in Togo, Ministry on February 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Although it’s been almost a full year since I’ve been teaching women’s lessons in the villages, Wednesday in the village of Ajadaa felt as natural as if I’d been going out every week for the past few months. They were all happy to meet Caleb and were shocked and pleased that he nursed like their [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Life in Togo, Ministry on December 16, 2006 | 5 Comments »
When we first moved to Togo, West Africa our learning curve was pretty steep. Among the many areas in which we found ourselves with insufficient knowledge and expertise was the area of entertaining visitors who would come ringing the bell at our gate. We came here with an overall suspicion of anyone who would ring [...]
