Yesterday started out as a normal day.  I got up, had breakfast and coffee, and went to team prayer.  The…

When we first arrived in Nasir, I honestly had no idea how I would ever begin discipleship relationships.  Of course,…

A couple of weeks ago we hosted our very first short-term mission team from the States.  It was a lot…

We’ve been diligently working on learning the Nuer language for close to two months now, and we’ve met our first…

As we become increasingly involved in the community here in Nasir, make more friends, and contextualize our lives more and…

Yesterday I took another giant leap toward looking a little more like a Nuer woman: I bought my first läwE!…

We have a short-term mission team here right now and someone dubbed our house the Ginter Cottage, and we liked…

We quickly discovered upon arriving in Nasir last month that there’s a wee bit of a bat presence here.  In…

Before I ever came to Africa I had heard that the sky is so magnificent here, and it’s true.  There’s…

Living here in Nasir tends to reveal much about a person.  Coming here was a stripping away process–stripping away bits…

When you live thousands upon thousands of miles away from most everyone you know and love, it is REALLY special…

We’ve had several people ask what daily life looks like here, and we wanted to give you a glimpse into…

We are into the swing of full-time language learning now–Thuōk Nuera–and it includes spending a lot of time actually communicating…

This will be the first of many posts about our house, as I’ll continue to update you as we complete…

This week held one big surprise: INTERNET!! The original plan was for us to have Internet from the day we…

At this exact moment, 1:34pm (local time), we should have already arrived in Nasir, South Sudan and begun settling into…

In 2011 while I was here, I wrote a post called Driving in Kampala in which I described what the…

Alright…I finally have Internet that seems to be working well enough to post pictures of our house in Uganda.  It…