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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Happy Gramdee and Grampadee – please pray for our kids!
These are our kids, together for the last time last summer before Sam & Anna & Elaina & Sawyer (on the right) took off for Lesotho to work with Mission Aviation Fellowship. Please pray for them as they adjust, for …
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Hoping to build bridges
This is one of many bad bridges in our region, and Roy and many others working together are trying to figure out how to make them solid and long-living. Roy & Kim & Gamboula’s mayor took a trip recently to …
Posted in Mission, Transportation
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In the dark
I am SOOOO thankful for Luke & Leonard! They know what to do when the hydro power turbine, which gives electricity and also therefore pumps water for the hospital and mission, isn’t working properly. It is a huge job to …
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Here, this really should say “woman”
The women do most of the farming and carrying and cooking and cleaning and….
But, this young man is trying to put some food on the table. This photo makes this frog look huge!
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Reality check
We have a couple of Swedish nurses, Lisa and Emma, helping out for about 3 months here, and we had to have some repairs done on their house before they came. This particular repair job was done by Lisa, not …
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In Zaire, we called it “sitting on a death”
That’s the phrase, translated literally, that we used to use when we attended a wake or a funeral. I inadvertently said those words in English one time in America, and I was told by a dear buddy, kiddingly, that if …
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If I don’t have love…
I’m passing this on, a thought provoking paraphrase of I Cor 13 sent to my by email from my close buddy, Jan Cone:
I may be able to speak fluently the language of my chosen field and even understand its …
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To those who are carrying a precious burden of a baby
This is for Kimia Joy and others who are waiting for new family members to come into the world. Are you feeling as big as a truck? Are you dragging? Do you feel like just about all you can do …
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The Turks are here for fall school break
Yippee!! And look what they brought with them! Besides 2 Swedish nurses, Lisa & Emma, who will be with us for 3 months, they brought our living room furniture for our house out at the CEFA farm. They also brought …
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