Hello in September!

Hello. We've not published for a little while now, Sorry.
What have you been doing? You ask. It has been 3 weeks since we've updated the blog.
We have re-started school, (Homeschool for the boys.) Hilary has left for Dakar.

Our friends the Curry family are leaving to go back to America. We've been helping them move.
(Actually between us, Eadelmans, and Karin, we've bought all their furniture. So we've been sharing it around. Curry's leave definitively for the US in 3 weeks. Our kids will really miss them. Their two, Jared and Caleb are each 1 year older than our Ben and Caleb. So for example, we shared a joint birthday party earlier this month. We also had an overnight last weekend to kind of give the kids a hurraugh to say goodbye. (Note the title of the book Ben is holding? Every kid should get a book like this from his parents, no?)







It is the heighth of rainy season now. It has rained a lot. I imagine the farmers are enjoying it.
The rain has done wonders for our garden. We can't remember ever having so much rain in Africa. It rains every day. A couple of weeks ago we got 2.5 inches overnight! Wow!


It makes our muddy roads even muddier, but helps our plants to grow. Lisa's flowers around the house are really blooming!




Here is a pic of Lisa and Jonas with a huge sunflower that we had planted. Also, today at noon we enjoyed American sweet corn! What a treat. (People here eat field corn. Not the same thing, is it?) Our garden actually produced enough sweet corn for three meals, and maybe we'll get another tour of corn! That would be so nice!


Lisa's mom sent us the American corn seeds as well as lots of others. Here are some pics for her to see that we actually were able to eat the corn she sent!

Ministry is going on as well. You may remember that we had a woman meeting at our classroom for literacy because her husband didn't want her to meet at church with "those Christians." Now we are up to 4 women meeting at our house. (The other two in the picture are women from church who are teaching!)

We are so excited about this ministry meeting a need, as well as a first real contact with these women for evangelism. (We didn't know any of these women before the class started. In fact the class at our house started because a woman heard about the classes at church, and knocked on our door asking to be taught!) So God is at work!

Thanks again for stopping by,

Tom & Lisa Seward