Monthly Archives: May 2013

Hammadou

He was a giggly chubby little guy last time I saw him, but his mum and he had left for a village some distance away. He’s back, with an illness that is giving him spazzy weak legs, aside from the …

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Praying for the country

Many people gathered in front of the elementary school downtown, next to the mayor’s office, on Sunday afternoon, to pray for peace, to pray for forgiveness, to pray for mercy.   The speaker talked about 2 Chronicles 7:14 and we prayed …

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Back home to Gamboula

We traveled from Yaounde to Gamboula on Friday the 24th, making a full 2 months’ away.  We stopped at the Catholic mission in K’zou, and were fed and taken care of by the gracious sisters there.

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We ended up waiting …

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Processing, crying, grieving, healing, hoping, praying, talking,….GOING BACK!

How do I convey to you what I feel so deep down?  Our journey over the past 2 months, yes!, 2 months already!, has been a revealing one to me, about myself and my passion and my fear.  Many many …

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Celebrating by jumping out of planes!!!

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Maybe you can’t quite make them out, but these are parachutists, part of the air show here in Yaounde on Sunday. Not exactly my chosen method of celebrating, but it was fun to watch other crazies do it!   There were …

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Read these if you want a great overview of our experience

Here are links to a couple of reports sent out by Reach Global, one of the missions that we partner with in CAR.
http://reachglobalnews.org/missionaries-narrowly-escape-after-central-african-coup/
http://reachglobalnews.org/hopeful-signs-in-central-african-republic/

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Stories from across the border #5 Kim and lawkeepers

This is an encouraging story from Kim Cone, missionary colleague, from his visit to G’la with Roy and the others just last week.  Our visiting group of 5 had had nothing but good visits and interactions with the Sele-ka in …

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Stories from across the border #4 women of faith

You may recall my writing of a women’s bible study that carols on Easter mornings.  I joined them one year and was blessed to tears.  This year on Palm Sunday, March 24th, a splinter group from the Sel-eka regime had …

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Stories from across the border 3 the good and the bad

We heard the real story about March 24th, and the aspects are mixed, good & bad.  We left a little after 2 pm that afternoon, and a renegade group, originally but no longer affiliated with the Sele-ka, came onto the …

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Stories from across the border 2

When Roy & Luke & Leanne & Kim & Rose-Marie arrived to the small town on the Cameroon side of the river, they were welcomed to a lovely guesthouse at a Catholic mission there.  Five leaders from Gamboula came across …

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