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Time has a way of spreading cities out and causing them to consume near-by villages. When we moved here seven years ago there was a tiny village of thatch roofed huts just down the street from [...]

Squinting past the solar light on the porch I saw two men, bare chests heaving in the dry midnight heat. The younger, paler one with the metal rod in his hand was pumped up on adrenaline… that [...]

The Ebola virus has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever now believed to have killed nearly 60 people in southern Guinea, government officials say. Scores of cases [...]

My glasses slid down my sweaty face as I bent over the little girl in the heat of the late afternoon sun. I tried to prepare her for the pain but I didn’t think she understood. Are there ever [...]

David traveled to Mali in December for a West Africa Field Leaders meeting. Our colleagues, the Gruddas wrote about his trip. The account was mostly accurate, except that the police officer [...]

  The girls recently prayed to ask Jesus to give them clean hearts. They keep telling us, “Now we can lean on God and not on ourselves.” That’s good theology for being [...]

“Konk  konk!”  We were sitting down to a very late, second round of cheesy bread. It only took me 8 years to perfect the crust. They were so good I made four pies. We looked at each other. “Is [...]

You know your eggs are organic when…  

In the Upper Region of Guinea, WorldVenture missionaries Nathan and Becky and Brenda are partnering with the local church. Their work is set in a town that is choked by political corruption, [...]

Today is the celebration {Eid-ul-Fitr} marking the end of Ramadan for Muslims in Guinea. As I cut the last of the homemade cinnamon bread and warmed hot chocolate for the girls’ breakfast, [...]