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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Wrap your head around this!
This email came awhile ago from a friend, Lucy Dobbs: The True Size of Africa is a map by Kai Krause that truly clarifies just how big this continent is. I mean, you know in your mind it’s big but …
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Celebrating the feast of the lamb
We celebrated Abraham’s faithfulness and God’s gift of a ram for sacrifice last Friday with Musxlim friends. Jan Cone, Lori Shinar, and I went to various homes right here in “downtown” Gamboula:
We had some good conversations and some absolutely …
Posted in Ceremonies & church happenings, Fun, Mission, Transportation
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When it rains, it pours!
I’m NOT complaining! Really! We just got done with opening, checking, sorting, and shelving 203 cartons of meds and supplies, and two containers from Sweden arrived and were ready to unload. Here are a couple of photos from our busy …
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Hooray, meds arrived!
After months of waiting and having to purchase meds bit by bit, we received our big pharmacy order from Holland. Never mind that it came in two different truckloads, one arriving at 7:30 PM! and the next one at 10PM!!! …
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Do you need to call roadside service?
Believe it or not, this is a road, not a river! Our ag director, Benoit, was on a trip to a village just north of us, and came to a section of road where he had to rely on guys …
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Visiting Sharon Davis in Bamenda
Sharon Davis is an amazing woman, networking in all different directions to see people enabled, healthy, and hearing about the Lord. While we visited her, if we mentioned a ministry or had a question or needed to find something in …
Posted in Family & Friends, Mission
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In the BIG city!
Okay, so we drove from our little podunk mission station/town in the bush to the bustling metropolis of Yaounde on Thursday. It took us about 9 hours to cover about 315 miles over roads that evolve gradually from very rough, …
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Byron’s here!
Byron Amundsen, Covenant Mission’s Director of Administration and Finance, is here at Gamboula visiting for a few days. He is in the middle of an Africa tour, having just come from Congo and soon to continue on to Cameroon. He’s …
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