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 […]

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 […]

This year has been epic adventure of highs and lows. It has been the culmination of the past two years of hard work, prayer, fundraising and planning resulting in the move of Neema House to our new facility, collectively called Neema Village. This year has also been one of the hardest on record for our […]

Matt and I are no strangers to moving. This is saying a lot for a small town Texas girl who’s entire moving experience prior to becoming an adult consisted of relocating from one house to another across town. In the eleven years that Matt and I have been married our little family has moved nine […]