Volunteer Teams

We have several volunteer teams coming this summer. I ask you to please pray Ephesians 1:18-19, "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe."

• Nehemiah Team: June 14-July 31
• Mt Zion Baptist Church (AL): June 28-July 6

Family time

In May, we took a trip to Johannesburg for some medical appointments, we are so blessed to have such great medical care! While we were there, we did a few fun activities and enjoyed the nice fall type weather.

Kids doing a ropes course and zipline

Daddy and Ellie

Playing on the playground

We went to an outdoor market in Irene, South Africa

 These pictures were taken after we returned home to Botswana.

Bradyn won "king of the court" in tennis for the
first time so we took him for ice cream

Ellie eating her first cookie. I think more
 of it ended up on her face than in her mouth.

Seminary Update

 Recently former IMB missionaries Tom and Cindi Melvin visited with us here in Botswana exploring a partnership with the SBC in Virginia with the Baptist Convention Seminary of Botswana. Will you pray with us on how God can potentially use and guide this partnership for the future?

When high school student Sarah Harmening passed away last year in an accident on the way to the airport to begin her mission trip to Botswana, who would've thought how God would continue to use her life as a testimony to Him. The family of Sarah raised $91,000 and donated it to the IMB where $10,000 of this money was designated to buy books for the Baptist Convention Seminary here in Botswana. The students are so excited to get these books!. May God use these books to further His kingdom.

Just a handful of the books we were able to
purchase for the new Baptist Convention Seminary in Botswana

Tom and Cindi Melvin meeting with the
Baptist Convention Seminary board. 

Lost and Found

Have you ever been lost? Maybe it was as a child, losing your parent's hand at the store or perhaps you were driving and your GPS wasn’t working. One Sunday afternoon, my husband decided to go out for a bike ride in the "bush" telling me he would be back in about 2 hours. Once it became dark I got a call from him and he asked me to try to come meet him. There was no sign of him at our rendezvous point...I call again...he answers out of breath, out of water, and in the dark with a phone that is about to die and says he is completely lost. He was heading to a light and had to cross an old rock quarry in the dark and ran into 2 large fences. Trying to save himself, he had thrown his bike over the smaller of the two fences that had layers of barbed wire and scaled it himself and was stuck inside with no more energy to go any further. Long story short, the fence that was scaled belonged to the main diamond company. In the process of trying to save himself, he wound up in police custody (they take diamond property very seriously here).

This is the story of the gospel...lost, no way to get out. Please continue to pray for those who are lost here in Botswana and without a Savior trying to save themselves. My husband was so lost that night, but thankfully he returned home after 9 hours, scraped up but safe. Thankfully all charges were dropped!