Ceeb Jin American
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Well Jainaba and I decided we wanted to practice being Senegalese... really we are just american. But it was FUN!!! we went to the Grand Asia market to get our fresh veggies. I had been there with Cristina and saw they had a little bit more authentic/ international market style foods than Food Lion. So, off we went. We got real short grain rice, casava( the woody looking thing), chinese eggplant bc the regular kind was the size of our head! and the smallest HUGE cabbage we could find. we got some kind of chinese potato, which i thought looked more like potatoes in senegal. and we got LIMES of course. we lacked Bee sap! sad -- so important to cebb jin!We got back and started to work. We started with the seasoning for the fish! yummmm it smelled so good and strong of course! we didnt have a fresh fish, so we substituted some good ole AB flounder. I learned why the senegalese use such a big "dubb" the size DOES matter, my miniature one just didnt cut it. Jainaba started cutting the veggies. That chinese potato was NOT anything we had ever seen before! IT WAS PURPLE. Bright purple. interesting. we carried on with the process....just as the senegalese taught me :) fish done, then veggies, then the rice. the rice is really what stumped up. we didnt have a steamer thing like they did... so we sufficed.
One glitch, those purple potatoes.... our rice turned purple. Result: Ceeb Jim American!
I love RALEIGH!!!
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After a late departure from Madrid, missing our Chicago flight, waiting for baggage in customs, another flight delay at O'hare we arrived at RDU.
Good ol' North Carolina :) friends and family :)
Unpacking....
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I knew that when I got home I would have a few friends that hitched a ride to America in my suitcases... lots of people wanted to come with us, but would not fit in the bags- the roaches on the other hand found room.... (and yes I am wearing a panya- it was the first thing i saw in my room and it just felt natural. haha)
Back in America
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It was such a blessing to serve the Lord along side Tim and Kate and the other missionaries in Dakar. Dakar is a spiritually dark place and physically tiring place to live. I gained so much respect for the missionaries there and received such encouragement for their passion to see the lost come to Christ. Seeing such need for light in such a dark place made leaving Senegal hard, but the hope that I found in leaving was the perspective I gained in how to pray for the Lebou people, the missionaries serving, and the work taking place in West Africa. God is working whether I am there or not, but I know that I can plea to him on behalf of the Lebou for his work to be done!
I ask you to join in praying for the glory of God to be known in Senegal.
- Pray for people who were given God's Word- that it will open their spiritually blind eyes to truth.
- Pray for the few believers- strength to follow Christ in Muslim society and understanding of God's Word and a thirst for it.
- Pray for the missionaries- wisdom and strength as they build relationships, disciple, and live in Dakar
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