Sahel Academy

Here are some photos around Sahel Academy, including Karen in the library where she works 4 days a week, Levi in front of the Sahel "See Us Shine" mural, Chris teaching a class, the new library building and Annika eating lunch in the cafeteria.

Bug Collections

For the last few weeks, my 7th/8th grade science class has been working on a insect collection project. I've never seem so many different and interesting bugs, although I hope no live ones ever show up in our beds!

Niger has been great for seeing new and different animals for us. This week, Annika caught a chameleon outside our house. We had fun letting it crawl on us and watch us with its 2 eyes going in two directions at the same time. It changed colors a few times too! After a few hours we let it go and have seen it since then nearby.

Annika's class has been studying ancient Greece, this is their Greek day.

The other pictures were taken last weekend when we visited the giraffe reserve near Niamey. We saw over 30 wild giraffes. The kids enjoyed riding on top of the car looking for giraffes.

On a Sunday morning recently we attended an amzaing worship service. People from over 10 People Groups attend this church and worship toegether in unity, celebrating their uniqueness. Church "started" at 9:00, but it wasn't until about 10:00 that things really got going. Each group had a turn to go up front and sing/dance in their own heart language, whatever song they choose. It was amazing to see the differences in dress, jewelry, body markings, dance style and hear all the different languages. Some of these languages were Fulbe, Beri Beri, Hausa, Zerma, French, Songhai.

Even us "Americanos" got up front and took a turn. After that was all done, we all sang "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" in our own languages all at the same time. The pastor told us this is what heaven will be like, when every tribe, nation and language will worship God together in unity. Praise God for this little taste of heaven right here in Niger!

Our kids are starting to make friends, and have had some over to play.