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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Overwhelmed and thankful!
Dearest friends and family, how can we even begin to tell you how thankful we are for each of you? How can we tell you how it feels to receive an email from our mission office letting us know that …
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Serendipitous meeting today
As Lori and I were praying our way through the maternity ward at the hospital, we ran into an old friend of mine, Rayaanatu. She was helping out at the bedside of a friend who had a premature baby. Rayaa …
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Little tiny Hammadou hanging on tenaciously
This morning as Lori and I made our way through the rooms in the maternity ward, praying for the new moms and the waiting-to-be moms and the moms who just lost their babies, we met Hammadou and his mama. Hammadou …
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Another hitchhiker?
Well, not exactly. We picked up the chameleon, below, on our trip to Yaounde, but we went to Yaounde to do some shopping for construction supplies and to pick up Timothy Chapman, who has come to be with us for …
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A hitchhiker
There we were, Luke Turk, Roy, Heidi Renkema & I, tooling along on the dirt road portion of our trip to Yaounde, Cameroon, last week, when all of a sudden, Luke puts on the brakes and says, “chameleon!” Luke is …
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Our visitors from the capital are all gone
There seems to be continued “relative” peace in the capital, and all our friends who were with us, mostly over Christmas and New Year’s (we had a total of 58 people at our mission station one night) have either returned …
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Gamboula’s mission hospital celebrates 40 years!
Saturday was a BIG day here at Gamboula. The hospital celebrated their 40 years of service here in this region. There was a lovely ceremony in the church with choirs singing and testimonies given, including two of the nurses who …
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The million dollar question!
Are you living out at the CEFA farm yet? That is the question that many of you have asked, so here are two photos of the Danforth house, from Jan. 30th, that will answer that question for you! A picture …
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Partnership meetings
This past week almost all the missionaries here at Gamboula had meetings with representatives from the local church, the “E.E.B.” – read Evangelical Baptist Church. It was a good but full 2.5 days of meetings. We actually heard from each …
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Seems like things are calm in this neck of the woods
Thank you for your prayers for this country. It seems that things have now calmed down in most places, and that the new government is in place. All of the friends who were temporarily staying with us due to the …
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