by admin | April 17, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
The average life expectancy here in Madagascar is 61 years for men and 65 years for women (CIA World Factbook). So when you run into an older person who wears the rugged lines of life well on their face, it’s always a joy.
by admin | April 17, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
We recently celebrated our second daughter, Eliana’s 3rd birthday. It is during times like this that we are so incredibly thankful for modern technology and the ways that it has the capacity to bring families together who are literally on opposite sides of the...
by admin | April 10, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
So we both love photography and Madagascar is a photographer’s paradise! We’re going to start “Picture of the Week” (POTW) so that we can share some of the beauty of this country with you all. Check back every week to see a new snapshot.
by admin | April 9, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
Money is an interesting thing here in Madagascar. Though we have been paid for medical services in the form of livestock, fruit and/or vegetables before, this quite obviously is not the standard. Malagasy money has quite the history of changing on several...
by admin | April 6, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
Madagascar is behind in the times with many things though I’m happy to report not with everything. My find yesterday was a prime example. We quickly stopped into a grocery store (which in and of itself is relatively recent… within the last decade or so) and I...
by admin | March 29, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
One may think that being a tropical island in the middle of the Indian Ocean that all of Madagascar is hot. However, Madagascar is in fact the 4th largest island in the world and therefore the climate can be drastically different. Since we’re below the equator, our...
by admin | March 19, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
Our long-time good friend and main ministry partner, Josy, left his wife home with their 3 kids and made the 15 hour drive to spend a few days with us and our 3 kids. It was fantastic!! We learned something new with our time together…. kids are kids...
by admin | March 5, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
Last weekend we took a trip to the coast for a change of scenery and a little scouting trip. To get an idea of the vastness of this island… it took 6 hours to travel by car from where we live in the middle of the island to the west coast! Morondava is a bit of...
by admin | March 3, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
It didn’t take long for our first “casualties” to occur here in Madagascar. We experienced two casualties in three days a few weeks ago. The first, Jamie’s soccer cleats. Jamie and Jonathan went to play soccer late one afternoon and quickly a pick-up game began...
by admin | February 21, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
Sekoly is “school” in Malagasy and is what transpires four days a week for the three older kids on our team; Isabella (4), Oliver (3), and Eliana (2). Sekoly coincides with Malagasy language lessons for the parents, however it’s a very...
by admin | February 12, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
Cooking most always poses some kind of challenge here in Madagascar! Unfortunately, a lot of my time goes into cooking for our family. I remember this from years past and it’s still true today. There’s a variety of reasons why this is so… there are many...
by admin | February 2, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
Often referred to as the “Eighth Continent of the World”, Madagascar is quite the unique island. Around every corner there’s intriguing and sometimes not so intriguing sights and scenes. We’ll spare you from the “not so” intriguing ones…. however, we...
