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Who Has Two Thumbs and Loves MSF?

Dec 13, 20136 min read

Yesterday started out as a normal day.  I got up, had breakfast and coffee, and…

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When a Chicken is More than a Chicken.

Dec 11, 20134 min read

When we first arrived in Nasir, I honestly had no idea how I would ever…

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Adjusting to Our New Normal.

Dec 4, 20133 min read

A couple of weeks ago we hosted our very first short-term mission team from the…

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Language Purgatory.

Dec 2, 20133 min read

We’ve been diligently working on learning the Nuer language for close to two months now,…

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Nuer Names.

Nov 30, 20132 min read

As we become increasingly involved in the community here in Nasir, make more friends, and…

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My First LäwE.

Nov 27, 20133 min read

Yesterday I took another giant leap toward looking a little more like a Nuer woman:…

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The Ginter Cottage | Update One.

Nov 18, 20132 min read

We have a short-term mission team here right now and someone dubbed our house the…

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Meet Bruce.

Nov 15, 20133 min read

We quickly discovered upon arriving in Nasir last month that there’s a wee bit of…

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The Skies over Nasir.

Nov 14, 20131 min read

Before I ever came to Africa I had heard that the sky is so magnificent…

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Amath Amath.

Nov 13, 20132 min read

Living here in Nasir tends to reveal much about a person.  Coming here was a…

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Our First Visitors.

Nov 11, 20132 min read

When you live thousands upon thousands of miles away from most everyone you know and…

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Day in the Life.

Nov 10, 20138 min read

We’ve had several people ask what daily life looks like here, and we wanted to…

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TE Lä Gat.

Nov 4, 20133 min read

We are into the swing of full-time language learning now–Thuōk Nuera–and it includes spending a…

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Nasir Cribs | Before.

Nov 1, 20132 min read

This will be the first of many posts about our house, as I’ll continue to…

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Online from Nasir!

Oct 31, 20133 min read

This week held one big surprise: INTERNET!! The original plan was for us to have…

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Rain Check.

Oct 1, 20132 min read

At this exact moment, 1:34pm (local time), we should have already arrived in Nasir, South…

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Driving in Kampala (or Playing Chicken?)

Sep 23, 20133 min read

In 2011 while I was here, I wrote a post called Driving in Kampala in…

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Uganda Cribs.

Sep 16, 20133 min read

Alright…I finally have Internet that seems to be working well enough to post pictures of…