2011 in Pictures

 2011: The Year of Transitions

  

Started in New Jersey

 

Went to Mississippi

Tim with his friend "D"

the boys "helping" Mama cook

Pastor John Hugh baptizing Benjamin

 

 

 

 

Up to Marion, IN for training

Hallahans, Duncans (Regional Directors for Africa) and us

Mission Training International Palmer Springs, CO  
- for language learning and cross cultural training

 

 

 

Back to the Northeast to say goodbye to friends and family

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the Philadelphia airport with 35 pieces of checked lugage!

In Uganda, our first days!

 

Scott at a pastor training

 Moved "home" to Arua, and doing life

 

 

 

 

Scott preaching at Panyimur

Billy helping to pull fish in

Learned a little of the local language, this was my tutor, Annet

 Trip to Lui, Sudan for the "Enthronement" of the new Bishop, Stephen Dokollo

 

 

 

 

Scott and Billy with the new bishop and his family

We hosted a team of women from Asbury University, we got to go on safari with them!

 

This is Mer, she stayed another 4 weeks with us

Went to Tanzania for Language school to learn Swahili

 

On the weekend we went to a game park in Tanzania 

 

 

Ben looking at a leopard in the tree

We got to see lions for the first time

Great time as a family

 And back to Arua

Went to an African wedding, see this post

  

Visiting our watchman's family at his home

Visiting Regina and her family at her home

Getting mail from friends and family

Going to an orphanage and playing with the kids

 

 

Learning to sew on a treadle machine

Learning to use a charcoal iron

Making a chicken coop, see this post for the full story

 

Reading books with grandparents over Skype

 Hosted a Community Health Empowerment conference

 

Had visitors

Doing school work with cousins

Taking a walk down our street

Tracy visited with the Burkhalters to give hand made dresses to girls in Africa

 Ben turned 1!

 

 To Kampala in November

The Installation of the first bishop for the Africa Gospel Church Uganda

 

 

 

Source of the Nile; we had a few days get away, just us for the first time since Ben was born

 

Making "muscles" with Caleb

Christmas in Arua

Playing in the water, outside, in December

 

Making Gingerbread house cookies

 

 

Toys, toys everywhere. And having fun doing it

Dirty boys are happy boys, a family motto

Somethings that were missing due to lack of pictures...
*Scott's training in Kenya on using Megavoice recorders to get stories from the bible in the national languages 
*Scott meeting regularly to disciple three Sudanese pastors
*Building relationships around town
*Scott took a trip to Gulu and Lira to look at starting a new pastor training site
*Visiting most of the Nebbi churches to encourage them

We are looking forward to all that God will do in 2012