Our Burkina Faso mission team arrived safely in Belton, back from an exciting journey to the edge of civilization. We will be receiving updates from the team members shortly, and we will be sure to share those with you here. Thank you for your prayers for the team. We pray now that [...]

(From Barbara, team leader – lightly edited)
Today we went to visit with the pastor and his wife who are at one of the churches in Koudougou… the same church where Steve preached on Sunday and where we both did our respective studies with the people (Steve with the pastors and I with the ladies). [...]

(From Barbara, team leader – lightly edited)
After spending the morning in Koudougou, Steve, Tammy and I headed out to the village of Sienne around noon to be with all the students. We drove to Bouldie to see if the pastor there could ride with us to Sienne but he had already left on his [...]

(From Barbara and Steve, team leaders – lightly edited)
Hi to all or our friends, family and prayer warriors. We all doing well. No direct news from the villages where our 2 teams of students are ministering. However, as you know, each team has one of our I.M.B. missionaries (David or Kerry) with [...]

(From Barbara, team leader – lightly edited)

I met with the ladies this morning. The meeting was to have begun at 9; there were only three ladies there then. By 9:30, Marcelline, the wife of the pastor at the church at the pastor’s training school here in Koudougou told me to go ahead and [...]

(From Steve, team leader – lightly edited)
Good evening from Burkina Faso. We just arrived back at our hotel from the restaurant where our entire team ate this evening. We were there an exceptionally long time due to heavy rain (this is probably the beginning of Burkina Faso’s big rainy season) and power outages [...]

(From Steve, team leader – lightly edited)
Good evening to all from Burkina Faso. Kerry (the 3rd missionary working with our team in B.F.) has been with our student team in the village of Bouldie from yesterday afternoon to this afternoon. No direct news from the village today, but we are assuming and [...]

(From Barbara, team leader – lightly edited)
Steve, David (missionary) and I have just returned from eating the evening meal at an African restaurant. David and I ordered African dishes; Steve went with spaghetti and meat sauce. I had some delicious riz gras (a great rice dish with lots of stuff in it and [...]

(From Barbara, team leader – lightly edited)
I am writing again tonight for Steve and me. It is about 9:15 p.m. local time…we had to wait about 30 minutes more in the hotel restaurant before coming to the room because the electricity went out and it was too dark to get up from the table [...]

(From Barbara, team leader – lightly edited)
It is 8:15 p.m. local time in Koudougou.
Although we thought we would have a working phone in our hotel room, we do not so we are going to have to try to connect at a little telecenter nearby.
We had a 2 hour orientation this morning in Ouaga before leaving [...]