It hasn’t always been easy describing what I do to a broad audience, but for some time now on immigration forms requiring a short answer, I indicate my profession as “Missionary Linguist”. I heard a chapel talk at the first SIL summer training I went to, in Eugene, OR, on Read more…
After a couple days of struggle, and finally giving up, Kim made one more call. God parted the clouds, and let the rainbows through. The tickets we got today are a bit more expensive than the ones we originally had, but they’re actually better, in terms of the connections in Read more…
I just finished drafting the line “good progress on dictionaries for each of the languages” for the newsletter we’re hoping to put out in the next couple days, and I realized I’m not sure that it is clear to all why that is a good thing. So here’s a bit Read more…
Joel poses with a couple of his cabin mates. They all started out best friends, as nine of the ten of them were in the same cabin last year. But this afternoon, one wanted to stay in bed because others were being mean. So we took a break from our Read more…
I figured I’d get decked out for camp with a couple Christian tattoos made from the henna our Afghani immigrant friends gave us; artwork courtesy of Kimberly.
Sunday evening at the end of homegroup, after the kids finished praying for one another, we pulled out the Cray Button so they could practice their dance moves for camp, which is just over a week away!
Today I started printing the posters I’m making for my trip to DRC at the end of June. They should be large enough to be seen by people a long distance away, so they can be used in large classrooms/venues. The last time I was in Nia-nia, they did some Read more…
