Ministry

• Pray for a friend who is very interested in the Scriptures; he has just read Genesis and is now reading the book of Exodus. He recently had a dream that seems very significant to us and we are excited to see what God is going to do!
• Pray for a water project we want to do to help a village get a solar pump for their well since the generator and pump they have is slowly failing. A consultant came out and we are now waiting for him to figure out some technical details and work up an estimate for us.
• Katie and Amanda had hoped to begin teaching a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) class in October but this hasn’t come together yet. Pray for wisdom for us and our partners and for God to draw the right students in His time.

Team

• We are so grateful for Bob Japenga’s visit! Bob is an old friend, a mentor, and an elder at our home church (The Barn in Connecticut). He worked with our team here, doing Playmaker interviews to identify our individual motivational giftings and also teaching and leading us in listening prayer. In spite of multiple health and computer problems that disrupted our meetings, we were deeply blessed by Bob’s visit and believe the Lord will use it in our team going forward.
• Our teammate, Jeff, had a flareup of a herniated disk in his back during our week of teambuilding. This was extremely painful and extra stressful because there are limited medical resources where we live. Jeff and his wife have gone to the capital city and are getting the care he needs. Pray for complete healing. 

Family

• Praise the Lord that after seven months the US Embassy in Dakar finally issued visas for Will and Jake! We now need to take the boys to the US in order for them to become US citizens. We are planning a four-week trip in Feb/March for the four of us while our girls stay here at school. Pray for the planning and finances for this trip to come together. We are so grateful that friends from our home church in CT have offered us the use of their home and their car while we are there as they will be away during that time. We are so excited that Will and Jake will get to meet their grandparents and aunts and uncles! They are really hoping to see snow…  Pray for the boys’ continued adjustment to our family. They are speaking a lot of English these days!
• Pray for strength and rest for Corey as he has been working and travelling nonstop for the past month. Pray for good health for Katie. Pray for wisdom and patience for both of us as we parent. Three teenage daughters and two preschool boys… ’nuff said. 😉
• We are so thankful to be all together for the Christmas break and to have Corey’s mom, Grandma Janie, visiting! Pray for this to be a sweet time for our family. Keep Emma (16), Molly (15), and Wheaton (13) in your prayers too – for them to thrive at their boarding schools and grow spiritually, personally, and academically.