On Friday, December 21, Hope Africa University graduated its first class of medical students!  Our friends, Joel and Janette Miller , are c...

(from Heather) December is evidently high season for French microbes.   The McCropders have recently hosted germ invasions including pi...

Resurrecting the category of blog posts entitled Book of the Month,  I would like to introduce my very favorite book of 2012:  Fierce Co...

Haven't finished your Christmas shopping?  Don't know what to get for that last person on the list?  Someone on the list you don...

(from Eric) It was a very pleasant November, with just a hint of snow, and we were starting to wonder whether winter in the Alps meant ...

Learning French to work in Africa? Oui .  In 2010, when our team was in earnest in our search for a long-term location (we settled ...

by Jean Valjean As many of you have experienced, learning a new language is a humbling process.   If it isn't enough that ...

Many thanks to our pastor Chuck Jacob for pointing me to a little book by Sinclair Ferguson , which is loosely structured around a 7-stanza...

(From Alyssa) Thanks especially to Jessica and Rachel's hard work organizing our feast, we actually enjoyed a pretty traditional Thank...

(from Eric) In the spirit of Thanksgiving, this is another sort of a tribute post.  (Other examples here and here )  Our goal on this bl...