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A weekend snapshot of my ever-moving life…

Our orientation in Bouake was over early, so the Bouake bunch decided to make the trek with us leaders to surprise the Korogo crew on Friday. After a lovely dinner at a poulet chaud restaurant, we all went back to our guest houses, crammed 3 extra girls into the already overflowing sleep space, and tried to sleep. Since I am still in pain from the accident and fighting a stomach bug, I didn’t sleep much. The next morning, we all…

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A weekend snapshot of my ever-moving life…

Our orientation in Bouake was over early, so the Bouake bunch decided to make the trek with us leaders to surprise the Korogo crew on Friday. After a lovely dinner at a poulet chaud restaurant, we all went back to our guest houses, crammed 3 extra girls into the already overflowing sleep space, and tried to sleep. Since I am still in pain from the accident and fighting a stomach bug, I didn’t sleep much. The next morning, we all…

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Blog:

A weekend snapshot of my ever-moving life…

Our orientation in Bouake was over early, so the Bouake bunch decided to make the trek with us leaders to surprise the Korogo crew on Friday. After a lovely dinner at a poulet chaud restaurant, we all went back to our guest houses, crammed 3 extra girls into the already overflowing sleep space, and tried to sleep. Since I am still in pain from the accident and fighting a stomach bug, I didn’t sleep much. The next morning, we all…

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Blog:

A weekend snapshot of my ever-moving life…

Our orientation in Bouake was over early, so the Bouake bunch decided to make the trek with us leaders to surprise the Korogo crew on Friday. After a lovely dinner at a poulet chaud restaurant, we all went back to our guest houses, crammed 3 extra girls into the already overflowing sleep space, and tried to sleep. Since I am still in pain from the accident and fighting a stomach bug, I didn’t sleep much. The next morning, we all…

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I made it back safe from Bamako. You may have seen some photos on facebook or picasaweb. My best friend tried hard to give us some happy memories eeven though I was in pain and emotional stress. Here's the rest of the story....

 

We (Dr. Jen, Glenn, Heidi, and I) made the grueling drive from Bamako to Ferke on Thursay (one week ago), then found out that Heidi would be able to continue on to Bouake that evening. I was set enough on going home that I decided to keep going, too.…

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So...this past week Mimi had a complete knee replacement.  She is now my "Bionic Woman".  This is all part of getting ready to join you all at CIWA.  (Which do you like...CIWA or ICWA?  One's English the other French) 

 

I have always told my overseas team members they have to be able to walk five miles and sleep on a concrete floor without a mattress.  Well...Mimi and my old bones have been missing the mark  so we are upgrading!  Both of us will be doing a lot to get ready for…

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So good news! I found out that I'm moving up to Korhogo to the remainder of my time in the Ivory Coast. There, I will stay with an Ivorian family from the Delefause church. I'll go to that church and be plugged into different ministries during the week. I'm not really sure how it's all going to work out but that has basically been my life for the last three months. So many unknowns about what’s going to happen. But I think that’s how God is going to work the best in… Continue

hey aaron, what's feb 1st anyway. just curious   mark

hi phil and mimi,

     'i'm mark newport and a follower of Jesus christ and very interested in missions in cote d'ivoire. i recently spent 1 month in bouake and ferke to follow up my aunt and uncle lois and jim goulds service there. jim gave his life in 1965 outside ferke and lois stayed on 15 more yrs at hospital in ferke. you may know her from world venture office.

     its great to hear of your service to happen in cdi. we were just talking about the number of men…

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Hey all!  It is way past time for me to begin interacting on the JC web site.  I think I became a member the day after the web site opened.  For you Journeyers, you may have heard about Phil and Mimi's plans to come and join the leadership at JC doing some member care and career coaching.  My purpose today is simply to introduce ourselves.

 

First of all, we're Aaron's parents.  We pray you won't hold that against us.  No matter what you've heard we're really pretty decent…

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I didn't even know what to pray for - I wanted to see something on the CT scan so that I would know what my decision should be. But God was moving in other ways. The CT scan was negative. Glenn, Jen, Heidi, and I prayed for clarity in decision. I wanted to stay here, but with my families and friends saying that going back was the only option, I felt that I needed to take that into account.

 

When Jen, Glenn, and I talked to my families, they agreed that with her diagnosis and…

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It has now been 10 days since the accident and so much/little has happened. This account certainly does not have all the details, but hopefully enough for you to follow the bouncing ball.

The symptoms of headache, vertigo, soreness, loopyness and general pain continue, except for Friday when I had a massage that for the short term relieved some soreness. Since time had passed and there weren’t any changes in my health, I was searching for advice. It seemed as though everyone had… Continue

Last week Kao, the director of the bible college in Korhogo, came to lecture on the history of the church, focusing on Cote d’Ivoire, and its current state. As with any mission history, especially in the two-thirds world, there were more than enough mistakes to learn from, but God’s guiding was not absent. To complement last week, this week Pastor Sorro from Abidjan taught us about African morals and philosophy and the Traditional African Religion. It was a rare opportunity to learn from both… Continue

Please laugh about this. I'm not yet, but eventually it will be as

funny as me hugging the car 2 yeas ago.



Driving a stick shift, dropped some kids off who had been visiting our

campus, come back, park, put the emergency break on. My passenger

remembers that. Then, she got out, I took my foot off the brake and

clutch, and used both hands to write down the mileage of the trp we

had taken. I get out of the car, turn around to get my purse and

realize the car is… Continue

Please laugh about this. I'm not yet, but eventually it will be as funny as me hugging the car 2 yeas ago.



Driving a stick shift, dropped some kids off who had been visiting our campus, come back, park, put the emergency break on. My passenger remembers that. Then, she got out, I took my foot off the brake and clutch, and used both hands to write down the mileage of the trp we had taken. I get out of the car, turn around to get my purse and realize the car is rolling. The door is… Continue

In a sermon I preached a while back I unpacked this idea based upon Paul's prayer in Colossians 1.9 to know the will of God:

 

Paul begins by telling them why he prays for them, it’sbecause he has heard about the glorious effects that have sprung up in theirlives because of the Gospel. So Paul is infatuated with the gospel message andhe relays this even further when you look more intently at his petition ontheir behalf…

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So today 12/22/10 after classes we all went out to play softball with a missionary family who is staying here for Christmas. We played a pretty good game but then had to quit because a helicopter comes and lands in the middle of the field. haha Only in Africa.

So the festivities began basically starting Christmas eve day with a movie marathon of Christmas movies. At night around 8 we all headed to Jamberu, the church I go to, for an all night…

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This is an email that was sent to update us on what is going on in Cote d'Ivoire.  It was sent from Rod Ragsdale our Journey Corps West Africa (JCWA) Director.

Greetings from what we consider a cold and dry winter's…

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This Christmas and New Year’s reminded me of a lot of the things I miss but also pointed out the ways God has blessed me here.  Christmas day I was able to establish a video connection with my family.  It was not

planned which made it all the more encouraging. 

At the same time it is easy to get caught up in the relationships and

events God has blessed me with in Cote d’Ivoire.  This Christmas was…

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