Monthly Archives: November 2011

A perfect Thanksgiving celebration site


Our daughter-in-law, Kimia’s, grandparents in Winona Lake were able to reserve their community meeting center for the family’s Thanksgiving feast. What a great room, with a large well-equipped kitchen attached, with a big entry hall and nice bathrooms! The room …

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Friends of Covenant World Relief

Okay, well, the 3 day meeting was last month, but the photo just came to us a few days ago.  Roy was energized by the meetings; the interactions with others about development and aid and how to proceed were invaluable.  …

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On being thankful

We have enjoyed listening and learning from others the past two Sundays.  Last week we heard that if we are truly giving thanks for what we have, we won’t be focusing on getting more; that being thankful in all circumstances …

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December prayer requests

Thank you for your faithful prayers, even when we skip a month of sending you our concerns and praises!

Our colleague Kim Cone is doing very well, healing from hepatitis – thank you for praying for him.

Our many church …

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Prisoner for a year…

We just returned from a thought provoking missions event at First Covenant in Grand Rapids. Gracia Burnham shared her story with us and we were humbled. She is a sweet testimony to what the Lord can do; she is seeking …

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It’s snowing!!! Well, it was a few minutes ago.

Okay, so we were super pleased to have been in 95 degree heat in Arizona the last weekend in October – just 11 days ago!!! I have a feeling the cold is going to be a bit harder to get …

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Worship, Ima style!

We had a wonderful chapel service at North Park Seminary Monday morning.  We tried to worship like our Jesus following friends in Cameroon; marching together, singing and reading in unison, hearing testimonies and praying, and then jumping and clapping – …

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Arizona!

We had a lovely time in Arizona last weekend, enjoying God’s creativity in the desert. Can you see the elephant and the mouse? These rock formations reminded of me of mushrooms and also of termite mounds in Africa!

Actually, don’t …

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