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Super good news and a week of quiet

March 6, 2010

First the good news… So about six weeks ago we got a very troubling test back from the lab, one of the kids in the orphanage tested positive for HIV. It was bound to happen sooner or later, we are in Africa after all. In the following weeks we did our homework, called everyone [...]

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Chugging along

March 3, 2010

I am so sorry for the terribly long silence, its not that nothing has been going on, far from it actually. Its just that there is so much going on that we never have a moment to sit down and write about it all. I am going to try and fill in the blanks a [...]

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Once again… Its time to Pray

February 26, 2010

We just got word that there are 4 more women who are pregnant with mingi children, and in the past we have found that these cases of mingi are the hardest to convince the families not to kill the children. Lale has arranged a meeting with the elders to see if they are willing [...]

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Its picture time!

February 22, 2010

Finally got the password figured out and uploaded all the new pictures onto Flickr. Click here for your fill of cute kid pictures!

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A Whole Mess of Kids!

February 22, 2010

Just got a bunch of pictures from Lale’s camera today and am trying to get them uploaded on Flickr, having a bit of trouble logging in and have to wait until my guy Rich who has all the passwords saved on his computer wakes up. Oh the joys of living on the other side of [...]

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Answers

February 20, 2010

I got a flood of email asking questions after that last post, I figure if that many people asked about mingi than its likely that more of you have the same questions.
There are three types of ways that a child can be deemed mingi. The first and most common is the top teeth coming in [...]

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Very good news!

February 19, 2010

The meeting is over in the tribes and Lale has returned beaming with pride for what was accomplished. What started out as a meeting in one village with 60 people ended up being in two separate villages over the weekend and included nearly two hundred people! Lale said that there were people who had killed [...]

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Random tidbits

February 17, 2010

It seems like the little random bits of information that I need to post on here are starting to pile up, so instead of boring you with days of posts I am going to squish them all together in this one big random mess of information.. Enjoy!
- The video at the top of the [...]

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Any Junk?

February 16, 2010

In only two short months we have doubled the number of kids we have in the orphanage, and Lale tells me that he is likely going to be bringing back more kids with him when he returns from the tribes in the next few days. There is something incredibly fulfilling about knowing that more children [...]

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Having faith

February 14, 2010

Today Lale is out in the tribes meeting with the elders and government leaders about mingi and trying to get some traction on educating them that the practice is wrong. He was really nervous about this meeting, in the days leading up to today he called me several times to ask that we pray for [...]

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