Monthly Archives: July 2012

The Olympics, real time at Gamboula??? No way!!

Yes, courtesy of Tim & Ann Wester, missionary colleagues, we watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics last night, AS IT HAPPENED!!!! Now, to help you understand how excited we were to watch the Queen jump out of the helicopter …

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Haliima

This is Halima, a dear Fulani friend. She has a very rough life, raising 6 kids on her own, as her husband left her many years back. One of her children, Abdoulaye Roy, died last year. She recently came to …

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Pray for Sam!

Our son, Sam, is going through technical exams right now to hopefully become an MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) airplane mechanic.  I talked to Anna, his wife, last night and I understand that it is not easy, but meetings with the …

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Please pray for our buddy

Please pray for our long time friend and worker, Mr. H.  He is very troubled right now, with physical and spiritual problems.  We long for him to have peace in his heart and mind, and healing for his body, for …

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The beach!!!

We recently had a wonderful 10 days of complete relaxation at the beach with dear friends Tim and Helen Smith.  We laughed and played games, ate alot, walked on the beach and watched movies, ate alot, did puzzles and some …

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Visiting med students


We recently had 4 young people come to help and learn at our mission hospital. The two guys, Josh and Matt, are med students from Canada, and the couple(recently engaged) are Marshal and Hannah, a pre-med student and nursing student. …

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Five Smooth Stones

An excellent book by Ann Fairburn – don’t be misled by the cover picture…there is a love story that winds through it, but there is MUCH more to the book than that. It tells the life story of, you might …

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Prayer requests for July

We are thankful to be busy at work, at the hospital and in the ag project, but we would ask for prayer that we would keep people as first priority. It is so easy for both of us to get

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