Mobility Carts 7 &8
Twins and Premature Baby Praises!
Fun over the Christmas break
Birthday of Pastor Jeremie
Mobility Carts
Dr. John Briggs helping to take one cart to Kara
Cart to Kara
Taxi with 2 Carts to Adeta
One cart on top and one inside.
Strong determination
Greeting family
Sharing the gospel
Getting the hang of it
MK Christmas Program
Trip to Lome
Old and new friends
MK’s singing a son in Ewe
a neighbors house on a hike
Eating dinner with friends
Welcome back to Togo!
Scorpions
Essi -our househelp and friend
HUGE snail!
Neighbors pet monkey
Akofa and Essi!
Fun in the rain!
Arrival in Togo –Thank you Kofi!
Fun and Travels in Switzerland
Part of the Pfenniger family
Ms. Ronel who watched Noah in Switzerland for 2013 French school.
A visit to a family from French 2013!
Walking along the town wall.
Fun mirror -We shrunk!
Mirror maze -so much fun!
Lion monument in Lucerne.
Long wood bridge in Lucerne -amazing history!
Crazy 2ft of snow in April!!
a snow sheep!
Beautiful view -going to see the cows.
Fred finally getting to play Yass!
A visit to Kambly factory/store -free samples!!
Beautiful view from the farm
Visiting family in France
Enjoying a beautiful morning
Noah having fun “on the farm!”
Cows!!
Cousin picture
Cousin reunion -Fred got to present our time in Togo.
Nathanael enjoying a great Uncle and seeing old pictures of Fred!
Aunt & Uncle reunion -a beautiful time!
Fred sharing about our time in Togo (translated into Swiss-German!)
School Parade and Albertville in Spring
Noah and his teacher Ms. Stephanie
Noah’s “ocean” school parade!
Hot air balloon landing in our “backyard”
Love the springtime!! (view from living room)
Friends and Birthday Party
Nathanael & best bud after dropping Noah off at school.
Nathanael’s best bud!
Thank you Mr. John & Mrs. Jessica for the Easter Sunday morning surprise!
Winter Fun
He’s lovin’ it!
Fun together!
Going up the tow-rope
Noah’s first time on ski lift with instructor
Puzzle fun!
Noah riding his bike to school
Noah and the tow-rope
Brotherly love!
View from our living room
Child labor 😉
Christmas in England with Friends and visiting Warwick Castle
Warwick Castle
In the stocks!
Christmas day!
Dressing up as a wise man & shepherd for a Christmas kids production
Christmas and winter fun
Noahs school class performance
Noah’s Handball team
Buche du Noel school contest -a traditional French Christmas cake
Thanksgiving and fall fun
View from our door
Thanksgiving day meal
Second visit to local fair
Day Trips: Lyon, Beaufort, Fort Tamie
enjoying pizza at a local restaurant
yum!
Barrage de Roselend
Cheese factory/museum
inside the cheese factory
eating in Lyon
street view
Roman amphitheater
Having fun at the ruins
Noah and the ruins
having fun!
Theatres Romains de Fourviere
Basilique Notre Dame de Fourviere
view of Lyon
Canon at Fort de Tamie
Amazing view
Fort de Tamie
Horse show and Fair
fun at the horse show
Up front!
Nathanael smiled the whole time!
Noah enjoyed!
School Field Trip -Promenade Savoyarde de Decouverte des Forts de l’Esseillon (information)
walking up to the entrance
the old chapel was right next to the hospital.
the hospital at the fort
back side of the fort
the kids having fun!
Having fun!
kids having fun in a canon hole
Fred and one of his hiking buddies
Entrance to the fort
starting our hike
Just around town
Fall fun!
Sunday morning at church
Fred talking to a college team and having fun!
Fred hiked up to the Belle Etoile
Hikes
Anyone home?
Made it to half-way point!
Noah running up to Dads encouragement
Noah petting a donkey
Fun at the Chateau with the Mallay kids
visiting the Chateau with the Mallay family
Chateau de Manuel de Locatel
Daily Life –
Look for the 2 in red
playing with other missionary kids
Saying “Goodbye” and Travel
Taking pictures of the plane
Arrival in Albertville
Saying “Goodbye” to Grandma and Grandpa
Final ride from Geneva to Albertville
Great Grandma and Dinosaurs
Visiting the Creation Museum!
visiting Great Grandma
Essential Missions Components Course
“Our Team” at EMC
STAMP program for Noah
Visit to Ontario
playing at a park
Sharing our story in Ontario
Up close!!
July Childress Family Fun time
Celebration after last game
waiting patiently in-field
A Hit!!
Watching Noah in T-ball
“Me, Grandpa, causing trouble?!”
Fun at 4H Fair
All the boys & Grandpa!
Preschool Fun
Preschool Graduation
Last day at preschool
Family Fun Time
Learning to bat
Learning to throw
Getting Dad!
Getting Noah!
Cool enough?! Daaaaad!!
Superboys!
Family Pictures
Meeting with Friends and Family
visiting a friend from med school
with Great Grandma!
Waldron family kids -took care of Nathanael while Lydia had CME
Schmidt family (who we knew from Togo) came to visit!
Meeting with Reichenbach family previously with SP
Easter Activities
Grandparents having fun!
Painting Easter eggs -Grandpa is the best!
Noah’s 4th and Nathanael’s 1st Birthdays
Is that all?!
Can I get it any bigger?!
Gibson Bible Church
Talking with Pastor Thomason
3 cousins having fun!
Visit from the Lakenen’s
Hiking at Clifty Falls State Park
Dr. John and Heidi Lakanen and family
Speaking at Grace Fellowship Church
at Ft Thomas
at Florence
Christmas with family
Grandma and Grandpa with all the boyz
Sunday school and the nativity
Grandma and the new bike
Grandpa and the boys
Great Grandma Dorothy and all the grandkids
Meeting New Faces
Meeting a fellow Togolese in MD!
Time in BC with Family
Time with Grandma Elizabeth
Noah missing motos in Togo
Birthday celebration with family!
Fun with cousins!
Visiting Boston Bar
Missions Week at Temple Baptist Church
one of many presentations at TBC
meeting up with the Newfelds
Speaking at Indiana Wesleyan University
Coach Smith, Lori Smith, and Dr. Hess -blessings in Lydia’s life now and then
Visit to PET Cart site!
ABWE Mission orientation
Meeting up with Teusinks!
Visit to Illinois and Missouri Church and Family
Extended family in IL
Talking with some Congolese doctors
Congolese Church in MO
fun playing soccer
Visiting Friends
Dr. Melodie Stocks who delivered Nathanael
Friends in Indy
Rykers Ridge Church
Visit to Samaritan’s Purse (N.Carolina)
What boys do on an airplaine
Boy fun!
Back again with the Tenpennys!
Airport fun
West Coast Visit
Lynette -on this side of the ocean!
Father-Son bonding!
Fun Parade in small town MT
Lesson learned: DON’T rely just on GPS!!
LOST! logging road in MT
“No Dad!!”
Beautiful Oregon
Riding with Dr. Devee
Presentation to “Swiss”
99 years
Pfenniger Family Time
Grandma Elizabeth
time with Grandma
time with cousins
breakfast with cousins
Visit to St. Louis and Arkansas
Thank you Marquinos!
Like father . . .
. . . like son!
Thank you Holcombs!
This time in St. Louis
Hippo!
Presentation
Childress Family Fun
Childress BBQ
Fun in the morning
present from Togo
Fireworks!
1..2..3..jump!
Visit to Indianapolis and Quincy, IL
Tropf family visit
Thank you Mackrides family!
Horseback ride!
Cow close and personal!
It’s a BIG pig!
Visit to Bowen Christian Church
YUM!
Yeah, I did it!
Dinosaur exhibit in Quincy
Thanks Dr. W for letting us stay!
Reunion of Susanna from Togo!
Presentation to residents
Presentation at Blessing Hospital
Talking with people at Grace
Talking at St. Elisabeth Hospital
Fun in Florence pool
Visit to previous work
Arrival in Indy
Welcome home to the US!
Grandpa!
Thanks Kharon!
3 Day Open House
Kokou and family
OB nurse Makovie
one of our nurses who delivered
Congratulations Essie!
Our hospital chaplans
Clothes given to us by the OB nurses
Ablam & family
Our Househelp
OB nurses
Follow up on PET carts
Nathanael’s Birth
“Welcoming” baby Togo serenade
Big Brother!
2 of OB nurses
HBB staff who helped
Loving, caring Dad
Dr. Melodie Stocks who helped to deliver Nathanael
Baby Shower
Wonderful food!
Quilt made by all the missionary women!
I really am pregnant!
Noah and Ethan’s 3 year old Birthday Party and Pool Fun
Justin -a good friend of Noah
Celebrating in Preschool
Blow!
Birthday games!
Mr. Tukpo -our French tutor
Kombati Family -greatly appreciated and missed! -now in Mango
PET Carts
Fun times and Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa! -thanks so much for coming out!
First dinner out in Lomé
“Larry the Cucumber” & Grandpa
“Larry” & Grandma
New tools!
Dad as “the sheep” and Noah as the “airplane”
Dad & Noah as “wise men”
Monkey!
Family Vacation time in Lomé
“I am smiling!”
Singing Christmas carols
Playing with Grandpa
Fun at the beach!
Building castles with Dad
Christmas lights in Lomé
Thank you “Aunt Beth” -we really had fun together!
Last day with the Groenevelds -thank you so much for all you did and will miss you all!
Field Trip to the Waterfalls!
Fun in the water!
Kokou & Kids at the start
Baby Dedication
Long-awaited answer to prayer for this couple
Celebrating!
Church Choir
Miscellaneous
Lydia’s B-day
Bruno & Noah
Fred helping make fufu
Boy fun and Birthday Party!
Family Fun time!
August Vision Meeting
Ministry Opportunities
Term baby with new hat
Premie Baby under phototherapy
Receiving French Bible
Bags of hats!
Noah having Fun
No hands!
Balloon fun
Chameleon up and close!
Climbing on the wall
Getting brave
The PET cart project -the first 3
Putting the first one together at the house with Pastor Jeremie before getting ready to go out with the others
On our way!!
Finding a dry spot & unpacking
Yavoi & the local Pastor
Getting on for the first time!
Trying it out for the first time!
Making final adjustments
Waiting in the door for us
Pastor Jeremie sharing the gospel
The whole family
3 of her children
How does it work?
Moving!
Putting it together
Myoba & his older sister
Pastor Jeremie sharing the gospel with family
Trying out the PET cart
Making the final adjustments
Myoba, his sister, & parents
Fourth of July Fun
Final Kick ball game
Fun!
Wheel barrow “handicap”
A water injection 🙂
Water fun with syringes!
Rolling tires!
Popcorn!
Volcano game
Water balloons!
“Dog sled race”
Good job team!
Having fun in all sorts of ways!
Going for a hike
Fun on the couches
Smiling in the rain
Fun in the rain!
Twins in a C-section
Lydia & Dr. Lee
Toes taste good!
Fun with Dada
Fun with Mama
Local Togolese Wedding of Two of the hospital nurses
Walking in a bit late
Greeting a Nurse assistant
Family Pic
The line to give gifts
Noah having fun
Playing during the wedding
Bride and groom
Baby Update
28wk Little Miracle at 10 months old
Baby Fred -now 6 months old
Wouldn’t feed baby now 4 months old
33 wk delivery after long stay, now 3 months
May 1st -Labor Day Celebration
Our househelp
Local housing
Walking back
Local School
Free Blood pressures offered
One of the PA’s and Fred
Noah & some of our nurses
Having fun with local kids
Close and personal
Noah’s B-day Celebration
Kokou & his Noah
Mme Dzodzi & Mme Essi
Dress-up Game
Blowing out the candles!
Round we go!
Party Favors!
Accra and Elimina Beach
view from the castle
view from the castle
another castle
doorways to the cell rooms holding slaves
church inside the castle
Walking with mommy
Best buddies!
So much fun!
Ocean! He loved the beach!
Sunset at the beach hotel
the beach in Accra
walking the beach
Castle in Accra
Fun play day
We splurged for 2 nights!
Attempt at family photo
on the way to slave castle
drying fish
Monkey Sanctuary
feeding the monkeys
There had been 2!
Wli Water falls, Ghana
Fun!
Having fun playing
Noah loved the water!
“On top of the world!”
Father & Son hike
he’s growing up!!
African dance
Kids “Mini-Olympics”
Noah’s new bike!
Our final Medalists!
Every one getting wet!
The water balloon event
Running/biking/ball events
He can’t pedal yet but his parents sure can push good!
Working in the Hospital
Visiting FP (Dr. Oram), Melissa Friesen (NP), and Fred at work in maternity
Getting ready to do a lumbar puncture
Fun Weekend trip to Lome
Christmas Nativity Production
“Go tell it on the mountain”
Taking care of the sheep
“Away in a manger”
Noah the Shepherd
December Pictures
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Smelling a flower
A favorite thing to do!
Hike to Local Waterfall
Staying dry while it rains!
Togolese bridges 🙂
Bananas!
Coffee beans and flowers
Amazingly tall tree!
Where’s dada?!
Yauw giving us directions
Local school
Cocoa fruit -where chocolate comes from!
Mountainous road
Beautiful view
On our way out of the compound
Our house
A snake our gardener killed -ahh!
Inside the cocoa fruit
Lydia, Fred, Noah, & Lynette
Soaking our feet in the nice cold water!
“Hangin’ out!”
Seeing the falls with Dad
The waterfalls -we made it!
Steep climb!
Enjoying the view
The grinding rock
A machine to grind coffee, corn, etc.
The road on the way
Coffee beans harvested & drying
Fun with Xolali and Benny
Trip to Kenya
“Walk-through Safari” group
Baboons freely roaming
Who’s the monkey?
Noah and a rhino
Giraffe and ostrich
Albino zebra
Cheetah
Statue or real?!
Hippo
July-September in Togo
An OB midwife and nurse
The Family with Kofi -an OB nurse
Our househelp having fun with Noah
Noah and Dr K’s sheep
Our gardner’s family with their new son, Noah!
Fred on his way home from the hospital
Noah on the blue tractor
Our houshelp on their way -Dzodzi, Xolali, & Akou
Learning to carry Noah in a panna
2 Visiting physicians who greatly helped us out!
Fred with our wonderful bunch of OB nurses
Noah learning to play games!
Noah enjoying a ride with Kokou!
Playing volleyball on a free afternoon
The road we walk to the hospital
a beautiful view from our house
A Week Home in Indiana
Two dear friends
Rees Family Visit
Visiting Great Grandma Dorothy
Helping Grandpa!
Enjoying blueberries
Close family friend
Family fun
Hanging with Cousin Casper
First corn on the cob!Childress Family Reunino
Excitement of fireworks to come!
Childress Family Reunino
Uncle Micah & Aunt Anna
Muller Cousin Reunion
Muller Family Pictures
Pfenniger Family Pictures
Playing Jass (“Yas”)
Bern Pictures
2 cousins
Main street & a famous clock
A main street in downtown
2 of the 4 bears
Famous Bern Clock
Noah’s First Birthday
Opening gifts and cards
a Doctor in the making!
the paper is the best!
Yeah!
“Bon Anniversaire” at the Soup Kitchen
Blowing out the candle
Noah and the fun at daycare!
The 3 kids and Ronel
Ronel and Noah
Dad’s built a lego tower!
Elias excited -who knocked it over?!
Beaucoup la neige
the view from the bus stop and lots of snow!
Waiting at the bus stop with lots of snow!
the walk way outside of our apartment
French 1 class
French 1 class
Visiting Zug and Family
Fred, Noah & family and a lamb
Sheep! Mountons
View in Zug
Playing Jass (pronounced “Yas”)
Family store with very old apple juice press
Feeding the lambs
Switzerland (Neuchatel)
View from the bus stop in Neuchatel
A beautiful day for a ride back to home
Beautiful morning ride to Neuchatel
Switzerland (Les Ponts de Martels)
Ponts de Martel
Taking a hike
A business street in Les Ponts de Martel
View from our bedroom
View from our living room -Noah loves to watch the cars come & go
The valley in front of Les Ponts de Martel
Leaving Indiana
Special visit from Aunt Kharon to say good bye
Dinner with the Burns
Time in West Virgina
Time in Boston Bar, BC
Time is Sparwood BC
Noah Driving / Swimming
A Father-Son Moment