Africa Moment # 12 - Fine Dining in Dakar - Self explanatory! :) [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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We had originally planned to return to Dakar on Wednesday, but it was so relaxing in Saly Niakhniakhal we ended up staying until Friday. I was scheduled to fly to Malawi on Sunday morning, so by Friday we had no choice but to head back. I spent most of the last day swimming in the fabulous Petit Jura pool, then around 4pm we caught a sept-place from Mbour to Dakar. The city was ringed by its usual traffic jams so we didn’t get into town until around 8pm. We headed to a French-run restaurant in a neighborhood I’d never been to [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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My last week in Senegal! I was still sans camera so the photos here are random ones taken in Dakar. After dealing with all the formalities resulting from the theft of my purse etc. I decided to get out of Dakar for a while and headed south down the coast along what is called the Petite Côte or, in the case of a couple of spots, Senegal's Côte d'Azur, with my friend Baye Fall. Our mode of transport? The sept-place—an incredibly beat-up old Peugeot station wagon configured to barely fit seven passengers in addition to the driver that most Senegalese use [View Full Entry]

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We will be leaving for Senegal in a few hours. We should arrive in Senegal around 9:30pm Wednesday evening. We should be in Ziguinchor Tursday afternoon. We will begin going out to the villages and seeing the Mankanya people Friday morning. We will be back in touch soon. [View Full Entry]

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Unfortunately I think the combination of travelling all day on a bumpy road, arriving after dark, finding out that the boat tours in Georgetown were very expensive and PMS, I did not enjoy Georgetown at all. When we left to explore, a young man from the hostel accompanied us and was to be our guide. As soon as we walked out the "Toubab!" "Toubab!" started and hands out for money. It was all a little overwhleming for me and after about 15 min I headed back to the hostel and just stayed inside the room and read. I needed a break [View Full Entry]

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It probably doesn’t sound like I could have a more eventful day in Dakar than the day I spent going around with Malick…but things only got more, er, exciting (I use that term euphemistically!). A couple of days later I was invited to Baye Fall’s mother’s house in Medina—which is like the main banlieue in Dakar—for lunch. She is the first of Baye Fall’s father’s three wives, and runs a three-story house full of kids and grandkids. After greeting countless relatives Baye Fall’s older sister took me into her room to dress me in pr [View Full Entry]

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