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From the parched desert he speaks….
Veteran missionary Bill Shaw explaining the finner points of eating local dish called “boule” and whole fish to Ben Dunlap, future missionary to Africa.
Here we go- this is my first post on our new website. As you can see from the picture I have not been lazying about the pool in Alcapulco sipping virgin Pina [...]
Dueling LOUDspeakers- Another Hot Flash from Sonia
Two-thirds of Chad’s population being Muslim, everyone is subjected to hearing about Salat, the second pillar of Islam, five times each day. A Muslim is required to pray at daybreak, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset and before going to bed. Here in Chad, the muezzins like to wake up the general population with loudspeakers pointed into the [...]
Hot Flashes From The Desert… Sonia speaks… Graduation
There were neither caps and gowns nor an audience of admiring parents, but just as much joy was apparent on the faces of my ESL students as I saw on the countenance of any robed and tasseled senior at our daughter Bethany’s recent graduation from Northwest University.
During two brief ceremonies in April, certificates of completion [...]
A la Une- News Flash
This is being written from Port Orchard, WA from where we are basing our travels during our stateside stay. The time sped by between this current posting and the last one, around the time fo the war in Chad. We had to push hard to finish the second building on the Bible school campus before [...]
Deteriorating Situation
Sorry it has been so long in putting up another front page! Here is the situation right now with us and the attempted coup d’etat. We are still in Chad, but in Moundou where we live, about 300 miles south of the capital city of N’Djamena where all the fighting has gone on. [...]
