and in karabane I stayed one day, and if you see the pictures you will know what I mean for paradise, cause I was getting close to it. still it was a bit too busy, some too many whites, too many hostels (about 4), too much of a stoner feel to the area... there was a colonial church desolated among the trees to make up for it... [View Full Entry]

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then I went to elinkin in a yaganyae, a small truck filled and I mean FILLED with people, pictures are available of the trip where I had to sit in the roof of it while two french guys were hanging in its back. I got hit by a few branches, and one gave me a bruise in the arm that still lasts, but thank god it wasnt in the head. elinkine is a nice town by the coast from where I left with the two french guys and a french girl to karabane [View Full Entry]

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first I went to oussye, a city in the middle of the jungle. its suppoused to be the capital of the department and the sorcerer of the region lives here, a dude called atabo whose son I met cause wazs a good friend of pablo, my friend in dakar, got it? everythign is green full of baobabs and fromagers, huuuuge trees, amazing ones. and therere mosquitos with malaria everywhere, and you can breathe the greeness, and the sly is so full of stars that the milky way looks like a huge cloud keeping you in its white shade... africa is startibng [View Full Entry]

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Trust all is well. We made it home! It is good to go, but it's also good to be home. We believe our trip was a great sucess. We enjoyed meeting the friends that we made on our last trip and going into new places on this trip. God contiunes to work and open doors for us to share with the Mankanya. Here are some of the high lights of our trip. We were able to meet with the pastors of the Evangelical Church in Tylene and share our vision of a Church Planting Movement among the Mankanya. They received [View Full Entry]

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All is well in Senegal. It is getting hotter and hotter each day. We have done three lessons of the Training. They were very excited to receive the information. They have made goals to train other. They are opening up more and more and sharing more prayer requests and stories with us. We are taking out the rice to the villages. They are excited to receive it. Rice has gone up and they are happy to get the rice. We will be heading back soon. Bart [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 All is well in Ziguinchor, Senegal. So far it seems that our trip has been a great success. We met with the group of Mankanya believers Sunday night and they were excited about the training that we proposed to them. We started that training Monday night, and have trained now for three nights. They are doing well and continue to thank us for coming and training them. One of the believers, Ceaser, leaves about 9 miles from the church. He rode his bike to church Sunday morning and brought a grass mat with him. He has [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone, Caleb and I have arrived in Ziguinchor and all is well. We had a smooth flight over and a good ride down. It was very interesting to see the land of Senegal as we drove down. We say villages with homes made of straw and mud, Fulanti people moving across Africa with their cows, and many of the trees of Africa. It looked very different than the Casamance area of Ziguinchor. It is much dryer and hotter this time than back in Dec./Nov. It gets near 100 degrees during the day. The mornings and evenings have a cool breeze. [View Full Entry]

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We will be leaving April 15 for Senegal for our second mission trip to Sengal. The focus of this trip will be to begin the TRT disciple process among the Mankanya contacts that we have made. Caleb and I will be updating our experiences while in Sengal. [View Full Entry]

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It's nice to have left the predatory 'bumsters' of the Gambia behind. Bumsters is the local Gambian name for the touts and would be guides that plague the Atlantic coast. Here in Ziguinchor, it's much more relaxed. This is undoubtedly because Ziguinchor isn't a mass package tourism destination. The interior of the Gambia may be less of a hassle, but I never got there, as I spent days feeling unwell with tooth ache and didn't want to do anything. It has to be said being pestered by bumsters when I have tooth ache makes me bad tempered! Anyway, I decided yesterday [View Full Entry]

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