Burkina Faso #10
Dearest Friends, Two Days…Five Shows The last two days have been very sweet as we heard hundreds and hundreds of children loudly calling on Jesus to save them. The days required perseveranceRead More…
Burkina Faso #9
Dearest Friends, Happy Birthday Joel! Today was Joel’s 37th birthday. Let me tell you how we celebrated. In 3 shows we shared with over 1,500 children and heard hundreds of children callingRead More…
Burkina Faso #8
Dearest Friends, Blessings Tonight our hearts are full! We spent hours today training Sunday School teachers, giving them ideas on how to effectively teach children when you have no resources. Many ofRead More…
Burkina Faso #7
Dearest Friends, The Flood In 2009, there was a terrible flood in parts of Ouagadougou. In certain parts of the city, the water level rose to 6 feet. Most people’s homes wereRead More…
Burkina Faso #6
Dearest Friends, These are three incredible stories and worth the read. Please take the time to be amazed at God. Tuareg Refugee Camp For many years, these people were inaccessible for theRead More…
Nigerian Pictures and Burkina Praise!
Dearest Friends, Yesterday, we trained our new team here in Burkina Faso. Praise God! They are incredible! PLease hold them in your prayers. At one point, we were briefly delayed in ourRead More…
Burkina Faso #5
Dearest Friends, The Straw House Today we did a show under a straw shelter. It was just poles and straw mats…very loosely attached. The wind was blowing and sometimes the dust madeRead More…
Burkina Faso #4
Dearest Friends, Please forgive me for not giving you a detailed report on today, but the truth is we are just very tired. We find that the heat here takes our strength,Read More…
Burkina Faso # 3
Dearest Friends, Big Faith We met a wonderful man and his wife today who have 80 children living with them. They rescued many of these children from the streets. It is aRead More…
Burkina Faso 2
Dearest Friends and Family, Our First Show The very first show we did is always full of problems, as we are trying to sort out a new set of equipment. It seemsRead More…
Burkina Faso #1
Dearest Friends, We are on our way today to Burkina Faso in West Africa. Please hold us in your prayers. This is a desperately poor country, ranked as the third poorest countryRead More…
Nigeria 11
Dearest Friends, The Biggest Sticks Our last show yesterday really illustrated how big the problem is in the public schools concerning the treatment of children. All of the schools are constructed prettyRead More…
Nigeria 10
Dearest Friends, You will love this report! We did four shows today and at each one, we saw God do something wonderful. Tomorrow, I will give you the last show’s report. ARead More…
Nigeria 9
Dearest Friends, Blessings 1. Again today, at a public school, I stepped between children and a teacher who was hitting them. The blessing is that as the teachers watched how the childrenRead More…
Nigeria 8
Dearest Friends, Hope To be honest, our discovery of the attitude of Nigerian churches toward children left all of us weeping and broken yesterday. Today, the Lord restored our hope. There isRead More…
Nigeria 7
Dearest Friends, You will find this email hard to read. The situation here for children is very bad in the church. Most Christians here do not believe that a child can comeRead More…
Nigeria 6
Dearest friends, Today we heard hundreds of children put their trust in Jesus! Along the way we met a Nigerian tribal queen. We traveled to a famous area, Idanre, where people comeRead More…
Nigeria 5
Dearest Friends, She Hit Him! Heather and I watched in shock as a teacher used her hand and hit a child twice in the face. Often, across Africa, I have seen teachersRead More…
Nigeria 4
Dearest Friends, Three Fantastic Shows I need to find a new way to say that we are blessed. Each day is so incredible. The children are amazing and the work is goingRead More…
Nigeria 3
Dearest Friends, God’s Gifts Each program we do for the children is a special blessing. At one program, many children gathered on the other side of the wall of the school toRead More…