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Career Missionaries since 2008, serving the Malinke Muslims of Mali, West Africa.
Our family launched to Mali in August 2008. Currently we are focusing on relationship building with the people around us, and on continuing our on-going language learning. Please keep us in your prayers. We need the leading of the Holy Spirit as we seek to be a light to all around us.
To see if Neil and Holly Lovitt are coming to a church near you, visit the Speaking Appointment Calendar.
Several years ago when we first moved from Bamako to Kangaba, we went on a village visit to meet some relatives of a friend. As our visit was drawing to a close, our host sent his children on an errand. Gleefully they ran throughout the village, cornering and grabbing two young chickens—a rooster and a hen. Tying the bewildered birds’ legs together and carrying them unceremoniously back to us upside-down, they dumped them on the ground in front of us. Our host explained that they were a gift to our children. Hmm, I thought. I wonder how this is going to turn out.
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Holly Lovitt
February 01 2013, 8:54 am | Comments 0
I hurried in and gasped myself when I saw the huge scorpion crouching on the inside upper corner of Clay’s mosquito net. Neil quickly dispatched the scorpion . . . .
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Holly Lovitt
January 01 2013, 11:55 pm | Comments 0
Here in Kangaba and the surrounding villages, gold prospecting is a major source of employment. Along the Niger River close to town, a number of gold dredges are at work, some of them financed and run by Chinese owners, and many run by Malians. The dredging activity on the river is so intense that no one is able to fish in the river there anymore because all of the fish are gone. On land, there are many well-known areas where people congregate and spend months at a time looking for gold. Their methods include digging holes in the ground and panning out the dirt, or digging narrow shafts down into the ground and then digging horizontally when they find a promising type of soil.
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Holly Lovitt
November 01 2012, 8:50 am | Comments 0
As I write this, it is mid-rainy season. In Kangaba, rain has been falling almost every day—sometimes just a light sprinkle, other times a pelting downpour that lasts for hours. Everywhere we look, we see things growing. On a recent Sabbath afternoon walk in the valley behind our house, we saw acres of tiga (peanut plants) popping up above the red soil. We also saw nyo (millet) that was already above my knees. The kaba (corn) also looked like it was growing well.
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Holly Lovitt
October 01 2012, 8:44 am | Comments 0
“Rain, rain go away, come again another day.” Remember this little ditty from your childhood? Well, this is certainly not a rhyme we have been repeating here in Mali. Rainy season began here about a month ago, and it is our favorite time of the year. The Kangaba area turns lushly green and beautiful. The rains also lower the temperature into the “frigid” (to us) 70s, which makes for better sleeping at night. The dry-season dust is washed out of the air, and our house stays cleaner. As you can see, there is not much we don’t like about rainy season.
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Holly Lovitt
September 01 2012, 8:39 am | Comments 0
