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
-

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
