Hi.  We are doing well.  I know we are not posting as much now and not emailing a lot, either.  We are still very busy getting settled into our house.  There is still much to do there.  And meal prep takes a long time.  We were down to our last loaf of bread so I needed to make bread today.  I started back to teaching and also chase Abigail often.  On top of that, we have to go to the school house for the internet.  Everything is really going well.  We are great.  Not in the least complaining.  Just trying to give you a clear picture of our daily lives now.  

It sounds like there was a misunderstanding about kids at our door.  None of them have been asking for food and we are doing great with it all.  People come to the door to sell produce and dolls daily.  I can think of once, on Christmas Eve, when a blind man came with one of his children begging for food for Christmas dinner.   I was happy to give him some as he cannot provide for himself and his children are too young to provide for him at this point.  We do have to decide how to handle new situations as they come up, of course.  But we are all so happy to be in our home and getting settled.  

Thanks for your continued prayers.  We got the projector set up so Joel wants to have a movie night with his wife later!  So I will close.  

Hi. I am in the process of reworking our blog. The new name will be easier to give out and have others remember. Click here to view the new location.

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Hi, all. Go back at least another page or more to see and read all the new posts. None of them are long, but there are several!

Abigail

Growing Up

Before/After

Colt's Project

Fun in Houston

Little Girl in Red

July-kids and friends

Abigail in July

ghana

More answers to more of your questions:

We will be living in a western style house with running water and electricity. The house will be much, much nicer than what the huge majority of the folks there live in, as mud huts are the norm. We will have washer, dryer, fridge, but will not use disposable diapers but instead the new generation of cloth! No easy way to dispose of trash, no walmart down the street to get more diapers, etc. we can eat both western style food as well as ghanian.

free time activities will be whatever we can come up with-watching a dvd, having missionaries and others over, hosting our friends and family who are visiting (hint, hint), playing baseball and soccer (or football, as they call it). there is a tennis court there so we will likely play tennis, as well. but we will have to be pretty good or get a lot of extra exercise as there is no fence currently around the court!

we'll find out how proficient we become in the tribal language we will learn! It's supposed to be fairly simple. maybe once we learn a few words we'll post a recording either here or on facebook.

about colt, on one hand he seems very interested and likes to share with others about africa. he does say he will miss his friends and cousins, which is very understandable, of course. He does have Jesus as his savior, so that does help a lot.

(I just noticed myself trying to spell like a Brit. I may do that more as we live over there for awhile.)

Thanks again for the questions, interest, and most importantly, prayers!

Answering More Good Questions About Ghana

Here's a link I found on climate for Ghana: http://www.southtravels.com/africa/ghana/weather.html. Joel and I are both surprised at the temps on two sites I checked. It only felt like it was 100 degrees or more or else the sites are just wrong! The equator may effect the heat index big time!

We will need no winter clothes at all in Ghana, per se. I light jacket for the evenings after our bodies have adjusted and the cool nights feel chilly, maybe. And we may take a little something for any fun traveling we do in Europe while in that part of the world.

The number of missionaries where we will be, not including us: two married couples (The Failes), one with three children still in the home (The Hewitts); one single woman (Jane) and one widowed man(Tommy). Yes, we will live on a compound together except for Tommy. He lives just outside the compound.

Thanks for asking great questions. More to come as more questions come in.

Lake City-pics again

I had to add this slideshow of our Colorado trip again (from early July). I went back and added a title to this show later under editing in blogger. I had forgotten that usually messes up the slideshow. So, went back and added it in a new post. If any of you expert bloggers out there have a suggestion on that, suggest away!

We will change our blog in many ways before leaving for Africa. I've got new photos we took with a photographer-taken in May, I believe. Once those photos are emailed to me, we'll have new header photos for our blog with Abigail!

Lake City

More About Ghana

Some of you have been asking great questions about Ghana. Joel will work at a hospital in a town called Nalerigu. The hospital services an area with a population of roughly 100, 000 people. There are currently two full-time doctors there. Joel will make the third. He will see patients in the clinic for ailments such as malaria. He'll deliver babies and perform surgeries on men, women, and children. There is a nutrition center for moms with malnourished babies. We can go there to share Bible stories. We can help villages have church. We will be used to pray for healing, deliverance, and salvation. We will have many varied opportunities to minister to those around us.

I will still homeschool Colt there as I do here. We will do some school with Benton, the Hewitts' eight year old boy. We look forward to getting better acquainted with the missionaries and Ghanians.

Post more questions and I'll be happy to answer them! Put "ghana" in the search engine at the top of our blog to see a few pics about where we're going.

Big News!

After much prayer and seeking direction, it looks like we may be leaving for Ghana in November. We plan to be there for two years. We ask for your prayers as we start preparations and as God continues spiritual preparations. There's much to do. We are excited about finally being at this point after several years of anticipating this.

Lake City, Colorado

Colt's 7th Birthday

Colt wanted a swim/baseball party. He had lots of fun with lots of friends. He had a baseball pinata. It's hard to believe he's alreay seven years old. He's such a joy and God is moving in his life.

Home From Vacation

We are back from an awesome time in Lake City, Colorado. We have fun with family and friends, and awesome worship time, as well. More about our time and fun photos at a later time.

As you feel led, please pray as we make final preparations to go to Ghana. We anticipate going no later than January. Thanks so much.