More Jam Training

Jam Training

Confiture Formation

Today was the first of an epic five day training at the new jam house. The women of the church in Oussouye started a small business cooperative to make some extra money. An NGO in Dakar has donated tons of really nice equipment to get the business going.

Today the training started with making syrup for bissop juice. We then moved on to habanero pepper sauce.

The training encorporates the very basics, like hand washing to the math involved in measuring and checking ph levels etc. Since some of these ladies do not read, Astude and Florence are there to assist in many of these areas.

Today was an interesting transition from kitchen on the back porch with kids washing their hands in the bucket we are cleaning fruit in, to the environment in the jam house. The women wore caps, gloves and jackets during cooking.

The instruction was done in Wolof so I did not get a ton out of the verbal, I did learn a great deal by watching and participating.

Moving into the new Jam House

Photos From Oussouye

Prayer

Today I visited Kabrousse a village about an hour from Oussouye. UCF has been working on Kabrousse since 2004. After the service today a man named Jean Baptiste and I prayed through the town. Prayer is essential to the kind of work we are doing in the Cassamance Region of Senegal, for we battle not against flesh and blood.

Confiture avec les femmes

I really enjoy saturdays with the women making jam. Yesterday they must have gotten bored or something so they took our names over to the Ossouye radio station and had them announce all of us and what we were doing with the jam. Yesterday we made Pamplamousse jam. They grow these fantastic large grape fruits here that they call pamplamousse (I am fairly sure that is spelled wrong)

The jam is interesting. After the rains in August they make Guava jam and other favorites of the ladies are Mango and Bissop Jam;

We be jammin

Centre Formation Missionaire

Life in Senegal

I am abandoning the futile attemts to add photos at this time so that I can add some news. On the way to Ziguinchor this morning I kept saying I LOVE AFRICA. Then at the cyber cafe my computer would not work, the power went out three times, nothing was working. and I reminded myself I LOVE AFRICA

The team from UCF left last Wednesday. Our work was very fruitful as we saw people filled with the Holy Spirit, healed and begin new relationships with Christ.

Since the team left I have been working to establish myself here. I spoke in the church in Oussouye on Sunday, I was able to hang out with Fatu from Arlem the Muslim area of Oussoye and do evangelism with Matt Marcel and Jerome.

My french is really a challenge but how great it is to be back in Africa and immersed in a new culture. learning so much every day

I have some videos on You Tube under tinasenegal

I will try and attach photos