Please remember to pray for our Sunday afternoon Bible storytelling with a handful of special folks. They're part of our the clinic's outreach to the HIV community. In fact they lead the support group that was formed a year ago! Since they're Muslim-background we invited them to come hear God's Word in the Djoula language, on cassette. Pray for good attendance tomorrow, as only one of the five people showed up last time! Target prayer time: 9 am CST = 3 pm study time.

The Word is getting out!

I continued my Bible storytelling with Salifou at his car wash on Thursday. We did the stories of Adam & Eve and the Fall. These early stories are important because they help nail down the consequences of sin and our need for God's grace. I showed Salifou (he's Muslim-background from Burkina Faso) that man spoils paradise almost immediately, and that the whole rest of the Bible is the unfolding of God's plan to mend the relationship that we severed by our disobedience. Pretty heavy stuff, but remember we teach these things to our children in Sunday School! Pray for Salifou to grasp these basics as he moves toward the NT's Good News. We meet again Monday at 2:30 in the afternoon shade.

On January 5th we had our 4th celebration in 3 weeks, starting with Tabaski (Islamic New Year Celebration) on Dec 19th and ending with Kate's 3rd birthday. She's been such a blessing to our family and a joy to be around (usually Ü) that we were glad to have a day to celebrate her and what she means to our family. We also think she's pretty cute! She's definitely a charmer. Happy Birthday Kate!

Happy 2008!

Happy New Year everyone! We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season and is now getting back into the swing of things......keeping your new year's resolutions of course! We thought we'd try to get really e-organized this year and develop a blog site where our wonderful supporters and those interested in learning about the work could keep themselves informed about what is going on over here in Ivory Coast. We haven't had much luck in the past with individual e-mails or e-mail groups so we thought this year we'd try something new. We hope you enjoy it and that it helps you stay more informed about what YOU are doing in Ivory Coast with us through your prayers and support. Let us know what you think!