Ok God, Where is the boat?

Hello everyone,
Tom and I are still here in the city, our boat with the shipment has
yet to arrive still now, this is The Gambia and nothing goes at
planned really, it's just something we had to learn the hard way. We
were told it would come on the 20th of April and here we are in the
middle of May and still waiting. Tom has been working on a plantation
for a national Pastor to help him raise money for his ministry. He is
off working most days. We are really looking forward to getting back
to Bansang and to our own plantation. We had our first rain shower of
the season yesterday, this is the rain that the locals claim is a
warning to the farmers to get their fields ready for the season. We
won't have another rain for like a month, just enough time to get
planting. This is why Tom and I need to get back home, to plant our
own garden. But we have realized that God has a perfect plan and His
time is the best time. We hope all is well at home and we are
constantly in prayer for you all. Thank you for all of your prayers
and support.
In His service
Tom and Andrea

hey everyone so first the ship was to come april 22, then it was delayed till may 5th now they are telling me may 10th So we will see. meanwhile we are still waiting here in Kombos. please tell us what is happening in all your lives we really want to know.

update

hello everyone we are here life has been hard but we praise God for sustainign us,presently we have 300 holes dug for the banana trees and we want to plant within two weeks if possible. Right now im in the city are awiting our crate to try to clear it at the ports. We have been working with Pastor Modou Camara and helping develop his own garden to empower his mininstry. We had a chance to see Pastor Lamin from Guinea last week and we are looking forward to partnering with him in the future in ministry. God seems to really be leading us to working with those two people and their congregations. We are praying and ask you also to pray with us, about starting to send national missionairys out into Gambia, there are presently a few weel equipped Gambians that are ready and many more that are awaiting training but willing to be sent. The plantations we are starting will help sponsor these missionairys, but andrea and i are also praying about starting something along the lines of a Gospel for Asia type thing, were we create pampletes of the missionairy and then maybe a video (we want you cassie and andrea to come here) which we can then use back in the states to raise funds. But we are only praying about that now and still trying to focus on what we already have to do here. We love all you and pray for you. Please pray that God strengthens our relationship here, as satan seems to attack that aspect of our lives. Also please pray God guides and gives us disernment to know his voice.

later

tom and andrea

Pictures

Hello everyone My name is Andrea Johnson and I am great friends with Tom and Andrea. My husband Brian and I have been to the Gambia many times and we were just there with Tom and Andrea this last Dec/Jan. We are going to help Tom and Andrea update there blog when they can't get to internet. Here is a slide show of pictures from our last trip to the Gambia.

And we're back

Yes, we are back in the Gambia. After a nice break in the US Tom and I are back and we are refreshed and ready to go once again. We have huge plans for the banana plantation and will be heading home to Bansang tomorrow to get started on those plans. We spent the past week in the city area trying to ease our way back into the culture. We are fully stocked with supplies for building and reinforcing and are going. Please be praying for us. Pray for patience for the Gambians, and for the opportunities to speak to people that we have been building relationships with about the love of Christ. Pray that Tom and I feel comfortable back in the Gambia and that God comforts and protects us and really pushes us to be bold. Thank you all for al of you prayer and support until now and please continue. We\ll try and update every month or so but you all know how bad we are at that but we really are going to try hard to keep everyone enformed.
Andrea and Tom

we are in the hood, for about a month doing research, getting supplies, raising support, and resting. Give us a email or drop by.

update

hello everyone sorry we have not posted for such a long time: We have finished our work in the city area and are now stayiing in a village called Bansang. We are doing teaching and starting a banana plantation. The plantation will be used for evangelism, like hqnding out small tree with the gospel, Here is you tree and here is Jesus. Currently we are in Guinea Conakry, a country south of Gambia, we are learning about contextual church planting and evangelism among the Fulani people group. Who we are missionaries to in Gambia. Sorry this is such a short update, we are running out of time. We will be home in the middle of January and will be happy to see everyone and to speak at anyones church or bible study or whatever. we love you guys
Tom and Andrea