Welcome to our first blog post in almost two years! We’re excited to give you a glimpse of life in Cameroon through pictures, videos, and stories. Will will also give our kids the opportunity to share about life in Cameroon from their perspective. This week, we’ll show you what life in the capital will look like for the next few weeks. During our time in Yaoundé, we are staying in an apartment near the kids’ Read more…
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas…How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.” Groucho Marx I thought I would start a series that highlights some of the difficulties involved in linguistics and translation. I haven’t yet taken any translation courses, so my purpose in these posts is not to speak authoritatively or to offer up solutions to each of these issues. Instead, my goal is to talk about some things I’m Read more…
Hi, this is Hallie. I’m going to tell you about my life in Dallas and about my birthday. We live in a 5-plex with some other families. My favorite thing to do at our new house is color and play with my Barbies. We have movie night every Friday and we take turns picking a movie for the whole family. When it was my turn I picked Camp Cool Kids. I met a friend that Read more…
Hi, this is Ava and I’m going to tell you about the fun things I do in Dallas. We moved into our new house and the first thing I saw was the fun tree in the front yard. I love to climb it. I also get to make slime a lot here. Here are a couple of pictures of fun things we did so far: We went to a lake that had lots of sand Read more…
It has been one month since we arrived in Texas to attend the linguistics school in Dallas. We certainly arrived at the hottest time of the year! Everyone is adjusting well and we are so thankful for all the prayers for a smooth transition. Chris and Rachel are both taking classes at Dallas International University (DIU). Chris is part of a dual-degree program between Southern Seminary and DIU. He will eventually graduate with an MDiv in Missions and Read more…
When we wrote our last newsletter, we had recently returned from our Vision Trip to Cameroon and confirmed that God was calling us to work among the Baka people. We were excited to begin the process of developing prayer and financial partnerships and looking forward to our move to Dallas in mid-July. We’ve been very busy over the last several months and have made significant progress on our journey so here are a few updates about Read more…