On February 26th, the Hospital of Hope employees, along with the missionary medical staff, celebrated ten years of service here in Mango.  It is amazing to think about the platform that this hospital has given to the Gospel in this region of the world.  Tens of thousands of patients from Togo and neighboring countries have...CONTINUE READING

Kara is a town about 2 hours to the southeast of Mango. It’s an “easy” day trip if you need to do some grocery shopping, file some paperwork, or just get away. We packed in a LOT on one day trip last month while Sierra and Ally were here. We loaded 16 people into two...CONTINUE READING

There is a separate living area next to the Hospital of Hope for patients (and their families) that have been discharged from the hospital, but yet require ongoing treatment or wound care. The buildings have a long central hallway with partitions on each side where the patients can sleep and keep their personal belongings. There...CONTINUE READING

One of the fun TNT traditions is a disc golf tournament on New Year’s Day. There are sign-ups weeks in advance. A map of the course is drawn and starting locations are assigned. Trophies are polished off. Cold sodas are loaded into a cooler. Competitors and spectators gather excitedly. And after the scores are tallied...CONTINUE READING

The last couple of months have been full of prayer and soul searching.  When we wrote our last newsletter, we believed that the Lord was directing us to go to language school next year.  We thought that it made sense to leave Togo while there were fewer families in Mango (due to multiple overlapping furloughs...CONTINUE READING

We attempted to send out an update in October, but the month completely got away from us. God knew. He had different plans. We were going to write about the wonderful start to the academic year at the MK school and the glorious rains that we were enjoying. And then the rain became TOO MUCH....CONTINUE READING

We have been back in Togo for a little over one week and have begun to settle back into life in Mango. What a joy it was to be in the United States this summer and to take part in so many different activities:  visiting supporters and reporting to churches, spending family time in the...CONTINUE READING

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”  Winston Churchill’s famous quote from WWII seems to apply well to us this week.  We have just completed our first year as teachers for the ABWE missionaries in Mango, Togo.  Within...CONTINUE READING

Plane tickets have been purchased!  Our family will be flying to the U.S. on June 18th, and we plan to return to Togo on August 27th. We look forward to being with our sending church in Idaho and visiting other churches as we are able.  Another main purpose of our trip is to spend time...CONTINUE READING