It has been a long January for us as we have been busy with dental and medical appointments in Toronto but we do leave for Winnipeg this week and then will start our quest west.
We have also had a great time visiting with family and friends in the South Ontario area while we have been here. Once again it was amazing to get in contact with some of the SIM retired missionaries in the Toronto area and discover many connections to Niger.
We have met one retired SIM missionary who has very close ties to our family in Galmi. Very exciting to share stories.
When we get to Winnipeg we will be travelling North, into the great white North of Manitoba and then into Saskatchewan on our way to Lloydminster. Sure hoping for good weather and driving conditions.
As we travel we hope to share stories of our faith mission journey and to hear of many stories from all those we meet along the way. Looking forward to meeting many of you over the next while.
Blessings
Orest & Grace
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Winter
Hi All
Good to be back in Canada where the air is fresh, clean and cold. We have spent 2 weeks in Scarborough at the SIM guesthouse and then we went to Winnipeg for Christmas. Now we are back in Scarborough because Orest needs oral surgery. Oral surgery is December 31 - what a way to spend New Years Eve. He then needs 4 weeks of follow up for other dental matters related to the surgery so we are in the Toronto area for the month of January.
The Christmas season has been good as we were able to spend a great deal of time seeing family and friends in the areas we visited.
As of today we have started our online TEFL training course. We hope to get the majority of this completed while we are in the Toronto area. This is very exciting because there was such a demand for EFL (English as a foreign language) in Galmi. We look forward to continuing with this program in the future.
We look forward to seeing many of you in the months ahead and we want to wish you all the best for the New Year.
Here is our first snow picture in Canada - we are at St. Thomas in southern Ontario.
Good to be back in Canada where the air is fresh, clean and cold. We have spent 2 weeks in Scarborough at the SIM guesthouse and then we went to Winnipeg for Christmas. Now we are back in Scarborough because Orest needs oral surgery. Oral surgery is December 31 - what a way to spend New Years Eve. He then needs 4 weeks of follow up for other dental matters related to the surgery so we are in the Toronto area for the month of January.
The Christmas season has been good as we were able to spend a great deal of time seeing family and friends in the areas we visited.
As of today we have started our online TEFL training course. We hope to get the majority of this completed while we are in the Toronto area. This is very exciting because there was such a demand for EFL (English as a foreign language) in Galmi. We look forward to continuing with this program in the future.
We look forward to seeing many of you in the months ahead and we want to wish you all the best for the New Year.
Here is our first snow picture in Canada - we are at St. Thomas in southern Ontario.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Update
Hello everyone
We are now in Toronto, Canada to start our home assignment. From the heat of Galmi we come to the somewhat frigid conditions of Canada in Toronto. Fortunately, the folks at SIM Head Office have taken the chill off and made us feel right at home.
We are here for 2 weeks to have some meetings and take care of medical and dental appointments. Then we head to Winnipeg to spend time with family for Christmas. We will definitely have a white Christmas this year from what we have seen and heard from in Winnipeg.
We arrived December 1 and we already miss our family back in Galmi so decided to post some of the family Christmas pictures we took prior to our departure.
We are now in Toronto, Canada to start our home assignment. From the heat of Galmi we come to the somewhat frigid conditions of Canada in Toronto. Fortunately, the folks at SIM Head Office have taken the chill off and made us feel right at home.
We are here for 2 weeks to have some meetings and take care of medical and dental appointments. Then we head to Winnipeg to spend time with family for Christmas. We will definitely have a white Christmas this year from what we have seen and heard from in Winnipeg.
We arrived December 1 and we already miss our family back in Galmi so decided to post some of the family Christmas pictures we took prior to our departure.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Shoe Boxes
We had an exciting opportunity to distribute shoe boxes this year to a village that we chose. We were able to go the week before to meet the chief of the village and explain what we were doing and to basically get permission. When we went this week we had 179 boxes but there was over 500 children. We decided that we would give one box to each family unit. Unfortunately, there was over 200 family units in the village so not all received a box. The people were excited and happy with what they received. There was 9 of us who went to the village 7 km's south of Galmi. We had a young man who is an evangelist at the hospital, named Douda, who started the day with prayer, song and preaching. He had a great impact on the non-Christian people.
The whole thing was not the nice neat presentation like you see on most promotional videos but it was great to be right in among the people. We separated the people into groups of 10 with one parent and one child in each group. The we let them into the school one group at a time. We were able to tell people what was in each box which was important.
The whole thing was not the nice neat presentation like you see on most promotional videos but it was great to be right in among the people. We separated the people into groups of 10 with one parent and one child in each group. The we let them into the school one group at a time. We were able to tell people what was in each box which was important.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Samuel
We love our grandson.
Grace gets lots of surprised stares when she carries Samuel in the traditional way.
A father/son moment.
Biki Today
Today was the Biki for the sister of Sani, she is married to Rabiou. They named their son Elkanah, which if you look in the 1 Samuel 1 is the father of Samuel.
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