Sabrina and I are glad to formally announce that we are expecting our third child. My wife is officially due on September 5th, and, in keeping with doctors’ recommendations, we are scheduled to fly back to the U.S. on July 2nd. The already-Mother-of-two has done amazingly well in keeping the home and helping in the church during her time of being with child. Sabrina plans our music program (congregational, special,
At the beginning of March, Sabrina and I signed up for something that I’ve wanted to do for some time. As we started our church last year, we noticed that most of the people in the Nyanya area spoke one main local tongue, Hausa (pronounced “house-ah”), in addition to the country’s official language of English. Hausa is a dialect that is native in at least four different countries, and is predominant in the northern part of Nigeria. My wife and I are now enrolled in two-hour language classes three times weekly for three months. We have already benefited from the training, and our church folks deeply appreciate our efforts. When you study the language of a populace, you learn not only what they speak but how they think. We are certainly enjoying this opportunity to be acquainted with our people better.
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