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- silencing
the stones among the Dagara
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. . if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out." - Luke
19:39-40
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August
2
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Dagara Team
NEW! Updated picture of our precious
Emma Chankin
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Sonny
and Eunice Guild have come to visit us on the field in order to
advise and encourage us in our progress as a mission team. Praise
God for how He has used them in this ministry!
- Please
pray for us to have travel mercies as we are all doing much travel
this month: the Burks, Carters, and Johnsons, as they drive down
to the West Africa Missions Retreat in Ghana; the Chankins, as
they travel around visitng family and churches in the States;
the Carters, as the travel to and from the States for a wedding.
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MORE
PICTURES
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Andy and Melissa in Dano-Pari
Melissa's language instructor and her husband
Andy and Alois just after Alois' baptism
Andy at the Mebar preaching point in March
Chad discusses their new well with Mr. Barry, a friend and
a member of his landlord's family.
Typical traffic in Ouagadougou, the capital city of
Burkina Faso
Aaron
at the Nakar preaching point in March.
Yownbacere, one of the current leaders of the Nakar church.
Pray for him!
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| The Dagara
Digest is an email publication sent to you by the mission
team living in Dano, Burkina Faso, working among the Dagara
people. The Dagara Digest will keep you informed of our
work among the Dagara, the goings-on within our families,
and the ways you can join us in our work through prayer.
You are on this list because you have expressed interest
in receiving emails from at least one of our four families.
You are invited to write to any of us with your comments.
Also, if you have a friend who would like to receive the
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button on the left. Thank you for your interest, your
support and, most importantly, your prayers on behalf
of God’s work here among the Dagara! |
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Dr.
Sonny Guild is a missions professor at ACU who
was instrumental in the formation of our team.
He and his wife, Eunice, were missionaries in
Kenya for 10 years.
Email
Dr. Guild!
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In
ten days you do little more than experience a whirlwind
of impressions that help provide a limited understanding
of reality.
Burkina
Faso is much greener and cooler this time of year than
we anticipated. The team, while dealing with the stress
of transition, is managing stress remarkably well. The
town of Dano is much smaller than we expected. The team
is adapting well to the challenging living conditions
as they make Dano their home. The Dagara people are
friendly and truly appreciate the efforts of this team
to live among them for Kingdom purposes.
Three
days in Ouagadougou allowed us to focus on some specifics
of being an effective mission team. Challenging issues
were openly and lovingly addressed. The Dagara Team
continues to be committed to becoming a better team
while they bring Good News to the Dagara people. Great
strides have been made in language acquisition and it
was thrilling to hear teaching being done in the Dagara
language and to witness an emerging church. Our prayer
is that the team will model living out the gospel in
community while they plant new communities of faith.
Our thanks to the team for welcoming us, taking care
of our needs, and letting God work among and through
them. .
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July
was a good month around our house.
Andy crept one year closer to being
the age everyone around here thinks
he is (a bald head goes a long way
toward adding years). We also welcomed
Sonny and Eunice Guild for a week
with our team. They were instrumental
in our team taking shape at ACU, and
so we are very excited to have the
chance to spend some time with them
here. Please pray for the Guilds and
us as we leave Monday for the Africans
Claiming Africa unity conference in
Ghana, immediately followed by the
West African Missionary Retreat. It
should be an encouraging, but exhausting
two weeks.
Village
visits in Dano-Pari and Mebar have
continued to progress, although things
have slowed with the rains. Keep praying
for the new Christians in Mebar, as
they continue learning what it means
to follow Christ.
Also,
please pray for Melissa's language
helper Rebeka. She recently had to
return home because her husband was
very sick. Since we don't know when
she'll return, language lessons are
on hold for the moment.
Have
a great month!
Andy
and Melissa
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. .more news from the Johnsons
Aaron,
Andrea, and Daniel Burk
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A
father-son conversation while driving in
Ouaga:
"Daddy,
I wish we had a SUPER-PHONE so we could
call God!"
"Well,
Daniel we don't need one. We can pray to
God whenever we want. We can talk to God
just like talking on the phone."
"O.K.,
God, I love you . . . Huh? What's that you
say? You want Daddy to drive faster?"
"If
Daddy drove any faster he would kill these
people on the road. God's word says not
to kill people. So that must not be God
speaking to you."
Ah, fatherhood.
Please
pray for Nakar to mature. A lady put off
being baptized during our last meeting because
the water in the creek was too cold from
the rains. I had encouraged them to baptize
her, even in my absence, as soon as the
weather warmed. This week, I found that
they had not baptized her. So, it not being
a "cold" day, I encouraged them to baptize
her right away and went home. I left them
to do their work. Please pray that they
followed through and that they grow in their
dependence only on Christ and not the missionary.
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This
month started with Amy returning from Benin, renewed
and refreshed by the "Come Before Winter" women's
retreat. Meanwhile, Chad celebrated July the 4th
at a small embassy party with the other team men
as we waited to pick up our wives. In Dano this
month we focused on preparing for our next string
of travels. We will be joining other missionaries
in Ghana and then heading to the states for the
marriage of Chad's younger brother. Thankfully
we are also moving towards our primary goal of
understanding Dagara. We both are developing deeper
relationships with our language teachers and discovering
how we learn and retain the best (we get to create
all our own lessons). The month finished out with
two great news items. Sonny and Eunice Guild,
of ACU, arrived to dedicate some of their time
to helping us work on team dynamics. We were particularly
pleased that they could also spend time with us
at our home in Dano (FIRST real guests! Sign up
quickly to save your spot!). Lastly, God blessed
our family with a well company. As of this morning
they have still not arrived with the machine but
we expect them any day now.
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Archie,
Mandy, and Emma Chankin
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