Hmmph »

Well, that’s very interesting. While working on our site and blog and wanting to simplify the categories I deleted them so we could rely on tags for folks to search. Tags seem more flexible. The really bad news is that I ended up deleting all our blog posts? Is that possible? Yikes. I will continue…

the worst missionary ever »

We are the worst- we don’t keep in touch, we don’t update our blog. We did get better about newsletters this summer- we are using mail chimp and find it much easier. That and our daughter Emily has been writing the newsletters . We leave in just three weeks to return to the land we…

Deep End »

I just realized I didn’t post for three of the 9  months since our return to Ethiopia.  Very unlike me.  I think we were going through so many changes and being transformed in so many ways it was difficult to actually put it into words.  So, here is a start- to explaining this last year…

Partnership renewal time :) »

Dear 6BE Partner, We have had an exciting and eventful year in Dahley this year; a year that you helped make a reality. Here are some highlights: * Last year only half the children in our program were attending public school; this year all of our original children are in school. * Four children in…

Enough! »

So if you have spent any time with us you will hear us talk about living simply and transparently- This post is an effort to share how we do this.  First, we will share our budgets with you- how much it cost us to live here, to live in the US, to fly around etc. …

Lessons learned… »

These last months have been hard.  Really hard.  As I creep my way back from the land of darkness I thought it might be helpful to share the experience–maybe some of you are still in the darkness, or desperately trying to claw your way our, or maybe, just resting in it. This last dark season, I…