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This past month has been a whirlwind! The main event of the month was the Wolof Kids’ Camp. Helping us this year with the camp was a team from Katie’s parents’ church in Maine, Windham Baptist. We had a great group of seven including Katie’s parents out to help us do some maintenance and repair to the camp grounds, and then help out during the camp.
We had 70+ kids at the Wolof Kids’ Camp who had a great time listening to speakers, playing games, and having good fellowship. It was a good time for the kids to get away from home and have some concentrated time to think about Jesus in a stress-free environment. The theme this year was “What Is The Way of Salvation?”.
Then we were back to Kaffrine with the team for some time in the villages and sharing our lives here. Katie’s parents stayed for three days after the team left and we had some good family time in Dakar.
We then picked up a small team of two from Wintonbury Baptist Church (Connecticut) in Dakar and headed back to Kaffrine. Wintonbury has just “adopted” the Wolof people and we had a good time discussing possibilities of what that could look like as well as visiting some villages.
Then we had a week of catching up on regular life, ministry, relationships, school, etc. and resting a bit. Now here we are already getting to the end of October! It has been a very full month, and God has sustained us through a lot of work and given us a lot of joy in being with folks we love.
Now looking ahead to the rest of the year, we have a number of exciting things coming up:
- Our teammates Steve and Esther Smith are arriving from the States on Oct 26th! They have been teammates in Senegal throughout our whole career here but we’ve never lived in the same town–we’re looking forward to being able to work closely with this family that loves God and the Wolof so much.
- We continue to administrate the Wolof Scholarship Program: October is back-to-school time here, so we’re helping get kids registered and buying backpacks and school supplies in the market…
- We’re heading to the United Arab Emirates for two weeks at the end of November to speak at a family conference at the church where my mom, Janie Garrett, has been serving for the past eight years.
- In late December my dad and his wife are coming for a Christmas visit.
- Plus: storying groups and CHE work, homeschooling, etc!
We appreciate your sustaining prayers!
