Rural Family Turns Urban

I grew up in a small town in rural Tennessee. Since then, I've lived on some outskirts of bigger cities, but never anything all that large. Since moving to Africa, we've been living in a city of 4 million people. Even though we lived here, our work was to keep us among people that have moved here from the village. Now, we've taken on a job assignment to work among all of the unreached in this monstrous city! What a task! We have to not only seek to reach people from all walks of life, but we have to study and understand how this urban mindset has affected these people and how to best reach them because of that. So now that that is settled, buy your tickets and come see us! :) If you bring a team from your church, we've got a multitude of possibilities that await you. If you come alone, we've got a lovely spacious home with running water and electricity. Not everybody in West Africa can offer that kind of accommodations! :) Get your passport, save your airline points and vacation in a tropical paradise. (Ammenities might have been slightly exaggerated to peak your interest. We cannot be held responsible for possible misconceptions! ;))

We have a new French tutor now. Because of our new assignment it became obvious that we'd be operating more out of French than was first expected. Hopefully this new teacher will help us get there.

Karis has fully recovered from her little malaria scare. There is still no way to know what exactly was the culprit of the illness, but we are thankful she's back to normal.

Baby Jeremiah has gone home from the hospital. Thank you so much for your prayers for mom and baby. We'll try to keep you posted on how our little man of God grows. We will have less contact with mom and baby for a while now, so pray that she continues to grow in her faith and finds believers to help her along the way.

We are flying solo for a few weeks. Our supervisors are out of the country and we are to keep up the work in Vridi alone. Sounds a little scary, but we hope to be able to do it. We will talk about Easter this week, the ultimate sacrifice for our sin, and the resurrection. Pray that we can cross those language barriers and be bold in our witness.

I'm posting some random pictures from the last few weeks. Hope you'll enjoy.

Happy Resurrection Sunday and love to all! Eat some ham for us, we'll be making do with lasagna!
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