What We Eat: Lunch edition
Lunch is usually the biggest meal of the day for us. Part of that is because in the past we avoided big meals and…
Posts by: Sonja
Visiting The Clinic
Yesterday, the next Broten baby was about 20 weeks gestational. It is growing and kicking and we are thankful for the Lord’s sustaining hand…
What We Eat: Breakfast Edition
That’s a pot of innards we received from a neighbor during Eid Al-Adha last week. Can you tell which parts are intestines, liver, lungs, kidney,…
Where’s The Beef?
One of the first things that I do when we get to a new place is find the grocery store or in Chad, the…
The Value of Books
Growing up my dad was always reading. He read a lot of history and war books, and also a lot of fiction. Some of…
Desert Fellowship
One thing that we wondered about when we moved to Iriba was how it would feel to be alone out in the middle of…
The Messy Task
Down the street from our house is a wadi which forms when the rains fall here. Usually we have a short rainy season from…
And Then It Happened
I live in Chad. Chad is in the center of North Africa. Our home is in Abeche which is a day’s travel east from…
The Unexpected Visitor
When I was five years old, Papa and I traveled to a campground in West Virginia. We met my Uncle Joseph who had just…
Teaching Writing
When I taught Fifth Grade, we spent quite a bit of time teaching writing. Descriptive wriitng, persuasive writing, informative writing and … inevitably when…