ERDMANS IN AFRICA
We have been completely flabbergasted by the massive response we have received on Facebook from our ‘Likes’ drive and The Big Announcement video posted last Friday. At the time of this writing, our page has been liked 556 times, the video has been shared 73 times and viewed 3,266 times! I know many of you […]
The days of 2018 have grown wings and flown by! Since I last blogged, we have watched our dream of a sustainable, affordable daycare become a reality! I have felt like the mother of Frankenstein, watching our creation go from a crazy dream to a living, breathing reality. IT’S ALIIIIVE! On December 23, 2017 the […]
Today is our four-year anniversary of arriving in Arusha, Tanzania. Every year I have written a year-end update filled with accomplishments of the last year and goals for the coming year. This year, my plan was to do the same. However, every time I sat down to write the summary of 2017, all I felt […]
What a difference a few weeks make in the direction of our program. We are so excited to tell you about what has happened, and how God has answered prayers since I wrote last. I had previously mentioned that we were in the process of setting up meetings with the Ministry of Social Welfare to […]
Our first month back in Tanzanian has flown by. It has been a process of figuring out what it means to actually start a new program. The progress is slow, punctuated with bursts of forward movement as we accomplish short term goals. Our primary goal is to have our first daycare up and running by […]
Hello there internet world. It has been a while since I have blogged. In fact, it has been a while since I have done any type of social media updating at all. My Facebook account keeps reminding me how long it has been since I last posted. Maybe Facebook thinks that I forgot to update, […]
As I write this, I am sitting in a coffee shop in Salida, Colorado. We are traveling with my parents for a week before heading to California and South Dakota. Our furlough has been wonderful. We have had the opportunity to talk to several groups about our new project as well as spending time with […]
Since the time of our last blog so much has happened. For starters, right after the blog about leaving Neema was released, our family moved across town to our new home in Kisongo, a village right outside of Arusha. Five days after that move we left for our three-month furlough in the States. We […]
This will be the most vulnerable blog I have ever written. We are in a place right now where we are leaning into the uncertainty and vulnerability of our story. Brene Brown defines courage as telling your story with your whole heart. The thing about telling your story, is that you cannot control how people […]
I have had a major case of writers block!!! I have several topics swirling in my head that I would love to share on this blog, but nothing is coming out like I want it to, so I have been putting off writing all together. Yesterday I was with another missionary friend and we were […]
