Yamba and Pegwende

I just found out from the pastor I worked under in Burkina that the old couple who served as house parents just died in a car accident on their way back to the Village of Hope last night.  Yamba and Pegwende are two of the most incredible people I have ever known.  They were old and yet tireless, constantly caring for the children, teaching the Bible, passing out medicine, leading worship, bandaging wounds, providing a home for the youngest children who were scared at night or wet their beds.  Some evenings I would walk over to their room for a visit, and they would be sitting outside eating dinner together at a little table, so thoroughly enjoying each other and still surrounded by children.  They both preached and read Scripture with an authority that was convictingly humble.  I have so much to learn from their lives.  Please pray with me that Christ would comfort the children, everyone at the Village, and Pasteur Michel's family as Pegwende was his older sister.  Death still stings...

Yamba is on the far left, and his wife Pegwende on the far right (and they actually have the brightest smiles...but in Burkina you don't smile for photos...Sara and I obviously never quite caught on to this!)

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[julia]

i am so so sorry daphne. what a wonderful legacy they have left.i am glad you got to know them.