Thursday, September 03, 2009
Biscuits and Sausage Gravy
Well, while we've got power, let me just post a few photos offamily life.
Of course, ministry goes on at its normal pace. Jane has been over in Ouakam every day doing first aid and supervising showers for the boys. Antoinette was gone for the month of August, so Jane had to scale back a bit by forgoing breakfast preparations. Antoinette started back in again this week, but it's Ramadan. The boys are fasting during daylight hours! Also, Antoinette is still gone two days a week at her training over at the Youth with a Mission clinic. I'm sure they'll get back to a normal rhythm eventually.
As for me, I've finally come out of the woods with field finances, inundating my colleagues with back reports. No one has threatened my life yet, but I expect the irate email notes any day now. :) Dakar Academy Board activity has also been more than expected these last couple of weeks. Most fun of all, I've been plunging back into the Sonship course, rediscovering my own adaptation of it in French from 9 years ago and preparing for a week in North Africa in late October. I've been invited to do a week-long seminar with a dozen pastors there. Although I'm feeling thoroughly unqualified, linguistically and spiritually, I'm also very pumped to have the chance to talk about God's grace and the Gospel at a deep level again. I'd forgotten how good this course is!
Well, you are probably wondering why Jony is smiling in that photo of a supper of biscuits and sausage gravy. And, no, it's not because I said, "Hold up those biscuits so people can see Mom makes us American-style food sometimes." It's because those biscuits and that sausage gravy are the product of his own efforts. Chef Jonathan. That's right. Jane has instituted a program of cooking classes once a week. Jonathan has to help her make a meal each week. And then he has to do it by himself the next week. He gets to choose the dish and that certainly will limit his repertoire. Still, Jane hopes that the end result will be that he won't starve if he's on his own at college.
Now biscuits and sausage gravy in Dakar doesn't taste like my mother-in-law's used to or like my son-in-law makes whenever we visit in Indiana. The sausage has French spicing. Still, it sure is yummy!
And, anything tastes better by candle light, right!?
Of course, ministry goes on at its normal pace. Jane has been over in Ouakam every day doing first aid and supervising showers for the boys. Antoinette was gone for the month of August, so Jane had to scale back a bit by forgoing breakfast preparations. Antoinette started back in again this week, but it's Ramadan. The boys are fasting during daylight hours! Also, Antoinette is still gone two days a week at her training over at the Youth with a Mission clinic. I'm sure they'll get back to a normal rhythm eventually.
As for me, I've finally come out of the woods with field finances, inundating my colleagues with back reports. No one has threatened my life yet, but I expect the irate email notes any day now. :) Dakar Academy Board activity has also been more than expected these last couple of weeks. Most fun of all, I've been plunging back into the Sonship course, rediscovering my own adaptation of it in French from 9 years ago and preparing for a week in North Africa in late October. I've been invited to do a week-long seminar with a dozen pastors there. Although I'm feeling thoroughly unqualified, linguistically and spiritually, I'm also very pumped to have the chance to talk about God's grace and the Gospel at a deep level again. I'd forgotten how good this course is!
Well, you are probably wondering why Jony is smiling in that photo of a supper of biscuits and sausage gravy. And, no, it's not because I said, "Hold up those biscuits so people can see Mom makes us American-style food sometimes." It's because those biscuits and that sausage gravy are the product of his own efforts. Chef Jonathan. That's right. Jane has instituted a program of cooking classes once a week. Jonathan has to help her make a meal each week. And then he has to do it by himself the next week. He gets to choose the dish and that certainly will limit his repertoire. Still, Jane hopes that the end result will be that he won't starve if he's on his own at college.Now biscuits and sausage gravy in Dakar doesn't taste like my mother-in-law's used to or like my son-in-law makes whenever we visit in Indiana. The sausage has French spicing. Still, it sure is yummy!
And, anything tastes better by candle light, right!?
