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Chronicles of our Journey: October 2014
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Chronicles of our Journey. Tuesday, October 07, 2014. And so it begins…. Today was the first day of school for our new cycle of young ladies at the “Girls at Risk” school program here in Niamey, Niger. If you would like to know more about our school you can check it out at. Then today we started. All of our new girls came and we spent the morning doing entrance interviews, Math and French placement tests and health statistics like their weight and height (to track their progress with our medical clin...
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Chronicles of our Journey: November 2013
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Chronicles of our Journey. Monday, November 18, 2013. Dear blogging friends. While many of you know us in person and have heard the news, I realized there are also a good chunk of you who follow this blog who live elsewhere around the World and thus I am sorry I am late with this blog! In my defense- we are moving, packing and having a newborn , so pastimes such as blogging have been put on hold! We are so thrilled to announce that our precious daughter, Ella Sahara Grace. Links to this post.
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Chronicles of our Journey: August 2014
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Chronicles of our Journey. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. From birth to a new name. Here in Niger there are very specific events that follow a birth. My last post here talked about the process of birthing here in Niger and some of the unique places and situations that happen. Because of my close relationship with the mother and the fact that the father walked away from the marriage, I had the honour to be asked to be part of the naming process for the new baby girl. The party chairs were delivered. With w...
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Chronicles of our Journey: Update on the Women’s programs- sewing, growing and glowing!
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Chronicles of our Journey. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Update on the Women’s programs- sewing, growing and glowing! We are almost at the end of this year’s program for the Girls at Risk school ( www.nvoc.ca. We also hosted a 2 week batik making class in the end of March where we taught fabric dying and batik making from scratch. So much fun! This year we area also working with 8 of our graduated young ladies to start a next level group of advanced sewing skills, taking community tailoring orders (which will...
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Chronicles of our Journey: December 2013
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Chronicles of our Journey. Tuesday, December 24, 2013. The “Grand Mosque” in Niamey. So for us when we are here in Niger, Christmas is about community and worshiping and celebrating together. Each year the International church has a carols, candlelight and cookies service where we sit outdoors with candles and sing carols and worship and enjoy fellowship. We decorate our house with a little tree and we make homemade ornaments. These represent Ghana, Burkina Faso, Spain, France and a Paul McIver original!
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Chronicles of our Journey: March 2014
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Chronicles of our Journey. Saturday, March 29, 2014. Yesterday was a very hard day for us. We didn’t say much because events were unfolding and we were getting information at the same time we were celebrating Arielle’s 8th birthday and we did not want to let the news bring sadness to her special day. Early yesterday morning I found out that our beloved chocolate Labrador Retriever Sanka. We got Sanka as a little tiny puppy at 10 weeks old just before Christmas 2003. He immediately broke through Paul&...
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Chronicles of our Journey: May 2014
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Chronicles of our Journey. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Men’s apprentice training program update. We are very happy to have the men's program truck out of the container and it is getting ready to be insured and to clear customs shortly. Beginning to level the land and build the access road into the area. This will save us lots of money hiring local dozers to sit around for when we need them. After the land is level and prepped we will bring in our shipping containers, unload the tools and work stations and p...
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Chronicles of our Journey: December 2012
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Chronicles of our Journey. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. I waited patiently for God to help me; then He listened and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out from the bog and the mire, and set my feet on a hard, firm path and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing, of praises to our God. My mom said how common miscarriages are-that 1 in 4 pregnancies end of miscarriage apparently- 25%. But this is my 5. Paul said he received a word from God that this is not the e...
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Chronicles of our Journey: October 2013
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Chronicles of our Journey. Thursday, October 03, 2013. The opinion and judgement factor. New International Version (NIV). Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths,. But only what is helpful for building others up. According to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Do they think that I love my children any less than they love theirs, or that somehow I don’t care and want the best for my child and my delivery? I choose to love the person and support them and trust they are makin...
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Chronicles of our Journey: August 2013
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Chronicles of our Journey. Friday, August 16, 2013. Summer update Part 2. Well here is Part two of our summer update. If you missed part 1 go back and check it out! We continue to hang out with family as much as possible over the summer. We like to drop by unexpectedly (or expected) and just make even little visits count where we can. We went camping with cousins and had a hoot too! Once again, these photos are by no means exhaustive but representative of people and events! We built epic sand castles!
