A missionary couple’s adventures and insights

When Bill Dean woke his pregnant wife, Jo Lynn, in the middle of the night and said, “I think we should sell our home and our dental practice (a successful practice in Springtown, Texas) and move to Africa,” she didn’t say no. But she tossed and turned the rest of the night while her husband, at peace with the decision, slept soundly, his mind at ease.

It took some prayer and the eleventh chapter of Hebrews to put Jo Lynn Dean on the same trajectory as her husband, but that’s what soon happened.

In due time they found themselves in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, where Bill Dean was one of only seven university-trained dentists in the country of seven million.