Our Home

This is our home now. It is a three room african house where the kitchen and bathrooms are not set up in the main building. We have a bedroom, a room with chairs and table, and a room we are using for a kitchen. After our first week here we are getting settled into the routine.


We wake up surrounded by our mosquito net, put our sweatshirts and house shoes on as the cement floors are cold, and head outside to the outhouse like bathroom. Then we fill pitchers with water from the sand filters by our back door and bring it in to heat water for tea and make coffee. We use a propane stove and electric refrigerator so cooking is good. Clean up is with buckets and tubs.


Our house helper, Mama Melki, who does the laundry by hand, also helps us with language and will start cooking and teaching me african dishes next week. Days are filled with getting supplies which is an ordeal, language school planning, and things like getting drivers licenses and hooking up cell phones. At night we are home reading and enjoying the sounds of chickens and donkeys and cows outside our window.


We pray our home will be filled with happiness and laughter and be welcoming and peaceful to all who enter in.