other items of interest:

we moved into our house in the middle of June. What a relief! Finally, we are unpacking bags!

Unfortunately, we are still waiting for electricity. Very frustrating. I've been in every office at the power company, pushing, complaining, begging, crying. But, it looks like we are getting closer: they brought the overhead wires to the house today, and they say that next week they will bring the meter, electrifying our house. We are cautiously optimistic, but it was good to see the Tanesco truck at our house.

We have enjoyed visitors, first Wes, Amanda, and Taylor Gunn in June, then Charity's parents in July. The boys have been spoiled (the good kind of spoiled) by friends and "papa and nana". And we spoiled ourselves with a two day trip to zanzibar (tanzania's beautiful island!) with Charity's parents. Beaches of pure white sands were great, but even better was being on a beach with permission to publicly hold hands with my wife (not culturally appropriate around Mwanza).

One of the areas we have been working, Busami, is about half an hour from the Serengeti, so we took our visitors to see some of our work, then took a day trip to see the great wildebeest migration. Our guests enjoyed the animals; I enjoyed driving on roads without bicycles, goats, and police checkpoints (of course, wildebeest, antelopes, giraffe, zebra, and other animals are on the road, but the presence of lions keeps their instincts--and escape skills honed. They get out of the way!)

now, trying to get settled into life and ministry after a summer of events and travels. Thanks for stopping by.