Monthly Archives: January 2014

If you build it, they will come!

Just this past weekend workers were scurrying to get doors and windows on these guesthouse rooms, because a group of more than 50 people were coming on Monday.

blog hurry get the doors and windows on!

It is Tuesday now, the second day of the ag development co-operative …

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Suture anyone?

Has anyone ever told you about driver’s ants’ back-up job when they get tired of running in marching formation eating everything in sight, live or dead?  They will give up their lives to be suture – if you line them …

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We’ve moved!!

Don’t go changing our address in your files, it’s still the same, at least as snailmail and email go, but we have moved out to our new home at the CEFA farm!  Thanks to help from many – here are …

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Carrying on

Some of our closest M friends here in town have crossed, at least women and children, but some are choosing to stay, being quite typically fatalistic about what will happen tomorrow – “if Allah wills it”.  They continue on with …

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Life interrupted

As our little town and mission station remain a peaceful place to be, much of the rest of the country continues in a heart-sickening, evil, downward spiral.  The news reports the conflicts and attacks and retaliations as Musxlim vs. Christian, …

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Back to reality – please continue to pray for C.A.R.

I went from enjoying Josh & Kimia & fam in Indiana in November straight to enjoying Sam & Anna & fam with Roy in Lesotho in December, an almost 2 month absence from Gamboula.  The absence didn’t mean I wasn’t …

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Special moments in Lesotho

These first ones speak for themselves, moments of joy with the kidsblog seas 9 blog seas6 blog seas3 blog seas2blog seas4

I confess I do like cats better than dogs, but I don’t think Everest the cat is playing fair here, such a tease!blog seas1This was a super fun …

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Oh them lions they can eat your body but …

 

they can’t swallow your soul, no, no, no… while in Lesotho over Christmas, we had some fun adventures with our kids and grandkids, along with Dave & Cindy Lux, Anna’s parents.  We handled live lions and we were thankful …

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