We had Kenyan friends over for New Year’s Eve: Kimunya & Harriet and their three children, Tinashe (girl), Tatenda (boy), Tumelo (girl). Our little princesses were glad to have two visiting princesses to play dress-up with them. (Tumelo, just 2 1/2, had gone back inside before we got out the camera.)
January begins our work as curriculum development coordinators … For our pray-ers: click here to download a PDF of our January 2011 prayer update.
We no longer live in the bush, so we haven’t seen any elephants, baboons, and giraffes out of kitchen window here in Narok. (Narok is a “small town” with a population of around 100,000.) We’re on the edge of the river valley, and sometimes we’ve seen some zebras several kilometers away across the river. But [...]
We’ve learned a new phrase in the Maa language. Parmang’at is an adjective that describes that state of in-between-ness experienced by those in transition. It means being neither here nor there, but being somewhere in between, or perhaps being mostly here but still a little bit there. When you have shifted your cows because of [...]
We have NOT just returned to Kenya … Click here to download PDF of our February 2010 newsletter. When people are interested in learning about our life as missionaries, my favorite question is “Describe a typical day.” That request always makes me smile, because sometimes we would really like to have the predictability of having [...]
