As most of you
know, we had originally committed to serving a year in Thies, Senegal, but
recently our plans have changed. We had
our plane tickets to come home at the beginning of January then we received an
email from Dakar Academy in Dakar, Senegal which is an American Boarding School
for missionary kids. They recently were
in need of filling two spots for the spring semester due to a medical emergency
of a couple already teaching. They
needed a PE teacher and a 2nd grade teacher to fill the positons of
the couple currently serving there.
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We
decided to go visit the school to have a better idea of what it would be
like. Although we had never really
considered it, it seemed as though the timing of it and the positions they
needed to fill fit us perfectly. We
spent a lot of time in prayer and
talking about taking the positions. We
decided that it would be best for us to take the positions for a number of
reasons. Even though we will be cutting our time in Thies about a month short
because we will have to go back to the States to catch up on some doctor
visits, refill prescriptions for 6 more months, have some overdue doctor appointments, get more contacts, etc, we
still really feel like this is where we were supposed to be.
We
never dreamt when we left that we would be extending our year by an extra six
months or serving in this capacity.
Although we will no longer be serving the Senegalese people
specifically, we still are definitely serving in Senegal. It is always a mission field no matter where
you teach, but in Dakar it’s an additional ministry for the missionaries
serving all over West Africa who send their children to school at DA to know
they are receiving a quality Christian education. We both will also have the opportunity to
serve using sports by helping with coaching different sports at the
school.
We
are both excited to see how the Lord will use our talents and abilities in this
next step at Dakar Academy. We know the
Lord will use us no matter where we are as long as we are willing and seize
each moment He gives us.
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