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June 2012 Blog Posts (5)

Ant Work

Lately our translation team has been locked in what Abdoulaye (NT translator) has dubbed "ant work." We spend days, weeks, months, going over translated texts -- copyediting, reviewing, revising, proofreading -- to get to goal. It's easy to get lost in the details. A friend brought up the truth that some people are antlike,…

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Added by Linnea Boese on June 26, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Mercy and Grace

Both Mercy and Grace were street children. They were abandoned and found by one of our missionaries. He took the boys in, but had a difficult time taking care of them. The missionary heard about Children of Promise and got in touch with the local coordinator of…

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Added by Transformed Lives on June 22, 2012 at 9:09pm — No Comments

Children of Hope

Lucy was rescued after she had been abandoned and had lost all hope. “Since I finished grade 8, there was nobody to help pay for my admission to secondary school,” she explained.

It was not until Lydia from Children of Promise in Kenya came along side Lucy and helped her with her education.

“Now, I am one happy girl…

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Added by Transformed Lives on June 20, 2012 at 4:23pm — No Comments

The Taylors in Tokyo

The Taylors in Tokyo…

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Added by Ken and Bola Taylor on June 20, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Permission to Play, or, Missionary on Vacation

It's been a series of months of intense work, of deep joys, of difficult tangles. Yes, the stress count was pretty high. So Glenn and I have taken a few days of rest in Abidjan, eight hours by road from home in Ferke. We stay with missionary friends who share their home with us, a courtyard in a suburb where few people know us. And this time we even took three days at the beach. We will soon be celebrating our 39th anniversary and both of our birthdays; this was our party.

I often…

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Added by Linnea Boese on June 1, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments