Noé & Bethany Kasali: DR Congo

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Monday, November 18, 2013

Information overload

Being in the States these three months (how has it been so long already??), we have received and had access to endless amounts of information about everything:

Billboard advertisements.
Email reminders.
Mailed sales alerts.
Internet commercials on Youtube and almost every webpage (how do you make them silent?!).
More emails.
And internet news.

We have known we can research anything online and find it. The problem is, sometimes we feel found by the information.

There is no doubt that it can be overwhelming at times!

One thing lately that we haven't had to spend time much digging to find, is news about our beloved Congo.

Finding so many articles about Congo is easy, although finding the truth in the different perspectives and often sensationalized views, can be trickier. And as we read these titles of just a handful of articles (Congo is in the news, y'all! This is a good thing in a way...), nothing sounds new. We've heard it all before. Is this the real thing at last?

We hope so. But we don't know. And like our family and friends in Congo, we continue to pray for the country. We pray for the eastern region of Congo. We pray for the leaders and decision makers. We pray for the people who live with the consequences of war, or fought-over resources, or power-struggles.

Can't get fruit like this in Illinois

We pray. We hope and ask that you will continue to pray for the country in this time. Pray that God will do something incredible in the story of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We pray that one day you too will get to see this beautiful place that we are blessed by, because it is one of our homes.

God bless you.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Journeying with Joy!

Well, our world has been turned upside down by (in our non-biased opinion) the cutest and sweetest baby girl... And moving to the other side of the world. But first, meet our little Joy Mary Kasali.

After Joy was born... Things were a pretty busy as we were getting closer to wrapping up this time at UCBC and heading on to graduate school for Noe...

We left Beni on July 23rd, and spent over 2 weeks in Kinshasa.
We left Kinshasa on August 9th - and arrived in Chicago on the 10th.
We've been in the States for a month now!
We've been in Wheaton for about three weeks.
Noe started classes on August 28th - and it has been nonstop reading!
Joy has adjusted fantastically.
Her parents... Well, we could use a little more sleep but we love all of her little smiles and sounds... She's starting to laugh and she lets us know when she misses us!

We wanted to share some photos of Joy and our journey to get here... It's in no way complete. It'd be better if you let us print them, put them in an album and then come over for some tea and we'll tell you all about it!
But for now:

These had been in order when we uploaded them... Why they aren't now...? Ah.