http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog Our adventures in Burkina Faso, West Africa Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:05:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=497 I'm going to try to do a blog post even though I don't remember how.  I added photos to my facebook account and I want to add them here too. **The photos are of a village trip we took a couple months ago. It was awesome.  We went to Ziga (a ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=485 ** Another photo album I'm posting is of a women's retreat I had the great pleasure of attending called "Women of the Harvest" retreat.  Its a American magazine for women serving in foreign missions.  They now do retreats all over the world.  American missionary women can register for it and ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=488 63 Outreaches, 3 Teams, 21 Evangelists and 8 Days. Sprinkle in 5 different vehicles, 2 generators and African timeliness, and you also have a recipe for disaster... This is how it happened: Operation Christmas Child invited me to train all the Children's Pastors who were participating in this years outreaches - 65 churches. ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=481 Here are a few pictures from the training that Heidi and I conducted for the Evangelism Team.  There's also a few pictures from Joel's team's very 1st outreach. More explanations in the next blog. http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=477 We have 4 more days till the outreaches start!!  Would you pray with us for this year's outreaches?  We have been ready to go for several weeks now, but because we want to join our outreaches with a medical clinic, we have been delayed a bit.  The doctor we work ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=475 We love our interns, and now they're gone... [caption id="attachment_473" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Our 2009 Interns"][/caption] Wow!!  That was some of the MOST intense 10 weeks of our lives!  The interns were fantastic and we wish they could stay here in Africa (one is coming back - yay!), but there was so much ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=471 Here is our latest newsletter.  Shelly just mailed it out for us on Monday (thanks Shelly!).  If we don't have your address, or if you just want a sneak-peek, here it is... Page 1:  (just click on the image) Page 2: (Just Click on the Image) Enjoy! http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=464 http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=460 This is a very quick note (it's late) to say that on Sept 1st, over 10 inches of rain fell in very little time here in Ouagadougou.  It created flash flooding and the water ran together to make huge, raging rivers which poured down the streets.  Bridges and dams were ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=456 We are so excited!  We have 4 new missionaries with us for 10 weeks for an internship.  They flew in just a few hours ago and we just showed them around their new house.  We are going to have an amazing 10 weeks.  Here are the week's themes: Discipleship - what ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=453 Yep, it's that time again!  We are planning for the Give a Kid a Christmas Outreaches 2009.  Christmas is still 4 months away, but for our purposes, that;s just around the corner.  We need to start choosing new schools, training the actors, buying the gifts, and on and on.  It's ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=448 This is a HUGE month for us!  Would you pray for a couple of things that are coming up? We have 4 missionary interns coming for a 10 week internship at the end of the month, and there are 10,000 last-minute details to take care of.  Please pray that this internship ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=434 What can we say? Ghana is very different than Burkina. It really was such beautiful scenery with all the green everywhere and pretty hills and the gorgeous beach lined with palm trees.  Even the nice paved streets and construction of the buildings is more impressive.  It was very nice to change ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=425 Thank you for praying for the kids’ worship retreat! We could truly sense your prayers as the Lord gave us strength to hold 5 sessions for the children, to lead 3 worship services for the adults, and then intense prayer ministry Saturday night after all of the other stuff! ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=416 Today was the 1st day of the Kid's Camp that we are having out in Niok-Wayalbin (don't hurt yourself pronouncing that).  We have been preparing for a while, and it was a huge success!!  There were around 50 kids (most Muslim) from the community, and today they had a great ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=412 I am bored.  The adventure has lost its color and has become as bland as tapioca without sugar or milk.  A slop of white, transparent, shapeless goop.  If Heidi were here she would roll her eyes: “here we go again” and she would be RIGHT!  I have certain triggers, which ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=404 Ok, no milk - but about 50 mango trees are on the 5 acres that are being given to the elementary school.  It is really a very beautiful land!  Keep in mind as you watch that this was taken during the DRY season! If you can't see it - here is ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=402 Joseph and I present to you the school AS IT IS TODAY.  We have the funds to begin building the school, we are just waiting for the land to belong legally to the school.  And waiting, and waiting...  Hard time seeing the video?  Here is the link on Youtube: La Vision ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=400 Jakob's class wrote little articles that made up a little magazine for the parents.  The topic was "My hero."  I posted Jakob's in the last blog called "Brainwashing?" But these were pretty funny too if you like the random stuff kids say sometimes.  :) I'll type these out word for word ... http://www.hayslips.com/missionblog/?p=391