Contact Information!!

Here is our address in Switzerland so you can feel free to mail us letters, cards, care packages or anything else you think of!

Joseph and Meleah Ouedraogo
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U of N/Jeunesse en Mission
1268 Burtigny
SWITZERLAND

Thank you so much for all of your support in our life and for your prayers. Please continue to pray for our needed finances and that Joseph does not get tried from continuously studying without a break between quarters. Thank you once again and if you would like our phone number please email us and we would be happy to email it to you!!

In Switzerland!!

We are in safely in Switzerland and first off, I am sorry that this update is so over due.
On March 30, Joseph and I left Kona, Hawaii; we went directly to Montrose, Colorado and spent two and half days with family and a few friends. In reality, it really was only an enough time to pack and then repack. We would have loved to stay around longer but unfortunately, that was impossible. As mentioned last we were in need of having at least $1300 dollars in order to arrive here in Switzerland and amazingly, thanks to God's faithfulness, we received a phone call the night before we left, that we were being given $1000 dollars for our time in Switzerland. It was a great testimony of God's never failing faithfulness to us. We are still in need of about $5000 more to finish paying for our stay here but we are very confident in God's goodness in our lives.
It has been amazing to experience Switzerland thus far. It is a beautiful country and Burtigny is a great base. Burtigny is in the hills that surround Lake Geneva. It is a small farming community with no stores and one restaurant, and plenty of cows, which I understand brings quite the lovely scent around at times, for those of you have lived very near cows you know what I mean. The base itself is small, with most of the base contained in one building with the exception of one office and some long-term staff housing.
It snowed the first day that we arrived and I myself did not step foot out of the building for the first two days after arriving, due to the cold weather. Need less to say, it's been quite the adjustment from Hawaii! The weather has heated up and it is has been pleasantly warm.
Joseph's class has about 17 students and 4 staff members, with representation from 12 nations and every continent except Australia. Two of Joseph's classmates are already friends of ours and many are quickly claiming the title as well.
The first weekend the class had a school retreat and it was wonderful. We traveled to the German-speaking region, about 2 hours away, to a place called Einigen. It is also an YWAM base but serves more as a retreat center. It sits on a hill next to a large beautiful crystal clear lake and behind it was the alps, up close and personal. The weekend was beautiful and warm which was great for Joseph and I, since all the activities were outside. The retreat was a time of getting to know everyone better and seeking God for direct during this season. It truly was a great way to start out the school, it was also Easter weekend, and we celebrated it with the base staff there. They lead us in a time of meditation and pondering on the reality of Jesus' death and resurrection. It was a unique experience and not one I will soon forget.
I hope to be able to add some photos on here soon, so check back in the next few days. Thank you so much for your prayers during our travels, it was very smooth and we are thankful to have arrived safely.

Our next step of Faith

In only three weeks we will be in Switzerland working towards Joseph's final goal of finishing his degree. It has been awesome to see how God has been providing the finances for this next step. In addition to the car wash, mentioned below, we shared with our church here in Hawaii about our future goals including our plans for Switzerland. They were amazingly generous to us in this effort, even through the church is 50-75 people weekly, we received over $850 dollars! It was such an awesome experience to see God working in the hearts of those generous people towards us.

We also did one more fundraiser here on campus. Meleah made some HUGE ice cream sandwiches which we sold during lunch and was blessed with another $50 dollars. That fundraiser caused us to have the perfect amount for our tickets which were almost $300 dollars less than we were expecting. So in an act of faith we purchased our tickets and are still trusting God for the rest of the money before the end of the month.

We are both in awe of God's hand in our life during the past three weeks, He has shown himself more than faithful and we are both have total peace to see the rest of the $5000 to come in before the end of the month.

Another praise report is that we recently found that Joseph will not need to apply for a visa to travel to Switzerland or study there, thanks to him having an US Permanent Residence card, it being the only exception for him needing a visa. God is so awesome!!!

Thank you so much for your faithful prayers on our behalf and for your continued support. We love hearing from you and can't wait to tell you of how God provided the rest of our money!

Working at the Car Wash

A few weeks ago we held a car wash at the lower end of the campus and it was fun. God was so faithful to us during this time. We had cars nonstop from 9 am to 2 pm when we finally called it quits. Even after we took down the signs we were still having to turn cars away that kept coming anyway.
We had some awesome friends who helped us all day long. But above all else, the most amazing thing was God's faithfulness in using this time as a way to provide for our trip to Switzerland. After six hours God provide $900 dollars to us!! Never have I heard of anyone making this much during a car wash and it just goes to show that God is our ultimate provider.


It was not only an awesome fundraiser but it was a great opportunity to share what the University of the Nations is all about, to those in the community .
As you can see in the picture we had some nice cars to wash.

It was such an awesome day, thanks be to God alone!!!

I wanted to show you around campus some so you can feel apart of our life here. This is a sunset view from the top of campus. One of my favorite spots.

To the back of campus is one of the smaller mountains on the island called, Hualialai.

This is a picture of our Thursday night meeting at the Ohana Court. This was one of the nights when Loren and Darleen Cunningham was sharing that night. The Ohana Court is nice and open with only one main wall which is great until we have monsoon rain storms like the other night.

I added in the picture of the sunset because I thought it was pretty and I am sure you would agree. I hope that you enjoyed the tour and the pictures, I love to show them off!

A few weeks ago the Old Testament class finally got some time to have some fun. The leader of the school, Robert Evan, invited us over to his house to help celebrate his birthday but I think that we were more spoiled more than he was! His wife, Bev, cooked us steak for dinner and we even had a Pinata!

Starting on the left is Bev, Makanna, Robert, Timothy, Ansuka. On the right is Jo, Terri, myself and Joseph. Jose is taking the picture but he is also in the class.

We played a trivia game about the birthday boy and although some had an advantage we all won a prize.

After the game we watched a movie together while enjoying coffee and cake.

It was nice to get out of the campus and just have some fun for this night.

More to come

There is a problem uploading our pictures but I will try again so check back in a few days to see some pictures.