http://www.ergatai.com/wp Our Missionary Journey to Burkina Faso Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:43:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en October is our last full month in Mahadaga before we start our journey back to our home base in Pennsylvania for our first home assignment.  There is so little time left and so much to do!  We appreciate your continued prayers as we wrap things up here and get ready ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=585 Believe it or not, this is our last quarterly newsletter before the end of our first term here in Burkina Faso.  Though the last 2.5 years have not always been easy, we are blessed to be able to leave this first term behind us on a positive note.  We are, ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=583 You may have already run into us online and know that we now have internet in Mahadaga.  But in case you haven’t, WE HAVE INTERNET IN MAHADAGA!  We’re so excited to be able to stay in touch with our loved ones around the world on a much more frequent (and ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=580 We hope you are all doing well and enjoying your summer.  We’ve been having a pretty busy summer with the return of the Walsh family and the visit from our home church missions team.  We recently participated in the SIM Burkina Faso prayer conference and visited another mission station in ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=578 Drawing near the end of our first term here in Burkina Faso, we find ourselves missing you, our family and friends, more and more.  Fortunately, many of you have been wonderfully encouraging and faithful in reading our letters and replying to some of them.  We thank you so much for ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=576 Dear Family & Friends, We are preparing to head back to Burkina in a couple of days (June 22nd).  We had a great time visiting with many of you and we are sorry that we were unable to see all of you.  We thank God for you and all the support ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=574 It's been a fairly quiet month, though quiet doesn't mean that it hasn't been busy.  It does mean that we never got around to taking any pictures, though!  We realized this as we went looking for a picture to include on our prayer letter like we usually do and saw ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=572 April showers bring May flowers...the saying seems to hold true even here! We haven't had as much rain as we've heard you all have been having back home, but we've had enough to see a few flowers start to bloom. It helps make the sticky weather a little more bearable ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=570 Greetings from very, very hot Burkina Faso!  It's probably just a bad case of "selective amnesia", but we really don't remember it being this hot last year!  Regardless, we're surviving the heat (though Caleb has a really bad case of heat rash) and taking it a day at a time, ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=543 April showers bring May flowers...or so the saying goes.  Well, it hasn't exactly been raining a lot yet, but we have had a couple of showers in the last month or so, including one on Easter Sunday.  That makes it 2 years running that it rains on Easter.  Back home ... http://www.ergatai.com/wp/?p=541