Bethel is collecting items and funds to send with the advance team leaving this weekend. Ryan and Tara Smith are leaving early Saturday morning with a trailer of supplies. The trailer is waiting at the Brookshire’s in Whitehouse or you can drop off items at the Bethel offices. They are [...]

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Friday in Sierra Leone Much of the day with Rob again at BEE for Zach, Matt, Lee, and Chad in the village near Waterloo. BEE is an amazing organization and it was awesome to hear some of their meeting with the local pastors today. They started with a prayer that [...]

Thursday in Sierra Leone I want to title this blog post “What the Shiny Missions Brochures Don’t Tell You.” Today was pretty good. We hung around Rob today as be taught “Biblical Education by Extension” (BEE) to a group of local pastors in one of the local villages today. It [...]

Eggs, plantains, pineapple, etc for breakfast again. It still amazes me how different their eggs are from ours. They should be mostly the same but the yolks aren’t nearly as yellow. They still taste great though! After the fiasco last night we got a new vehicle today and only Bobson [...]

Tuesday started similar to monday with eggs, bread, pineapple, and fried plantains. It was all very good and the ladies who prepared it at the hope center were very gracious. We went to meet with teachers at a couple of the G.E.M. Schools. It was great to see the world [...]

Sunday night we arrived at the guest house called the “hope center” located in Jui. The missionaries and staff there are all very welcoming and helpful. The center itself is nice. Very western in design, no AC but the fans and windows circulate the air. The showers and toilet stalls [...]

Sunday YL Africa Pretty good nights rest last night even though we were sleeping 2 to a bed and not all of us had AC. Woke up to African omelets which is similar to American omelets… But totally different. Out to camp to spend time with the kids. When we [...]

Today started with eggs and hot dogs at 8am which was very nice actually! We left Freetown and drove about 3.5 hrs through town to the young life camp in Lansar. We did get delayed by a fatal accident on the main bridge on our way to the camp. There [...]

By Gods grace we made it safe and sound in Sierra Leone We left Thursday morning at 7am headed for DFW to catch our 11am flight. After a brief turnaround trying to find the “parking spot,” (seriously, its a real parking lot, Zach found it in maps and we left [...]