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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Refugees across the border
Courtesy of photos and info from our Fulani ministry colleagues, Jan & Kim Cone, we have learned about a refugee camp about an hour’s drive north of the Cameroonian border town that we always visit. Approximately 8000 souls live in …
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Zeynabu and Samira
This little one made it through a series of daily shots for malaria a couple of weeks ago, and now I think the family is just plain hungry. This mama, who looks 15, is really 20 and the little one …
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Christmas, birthday and thank you surprises!
Our buddies, Jan & Kim Cone, just returned from a trip to Yaounde for dental work. They came with a bunch of mail for us, it’s always fun to open cards and letters. Snail mail is wonderful, even when we …
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An ocean freight container from Sweden !
We had a busy afternoon last week unloading a container full of much needed hospital beds and supplies. Even a bit of rain didn’t stop the process. God has continually blessed this place with needed equipment and …
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Happy Birthday, Mom!!!
It’s Roy’s mom’s birthday today, March 16. Roy & I just chatted with Mom & Dad on Skype-to-phone a few minutes ago, 9 am California time, 5 pm Gamboula time. I can’t even begin to tell you how I …
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Fruit fruit fruit!
We are enjoying jakfruit and bananas and plantains and passion fruit and oranges and avocados and guavas, every day, coming out of our ears, but I had to laugh when this particular fruit, the pineapple, showed up in our kitchen! …
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Oops, hot water system on the blink!
Do you want to know what NOT to do when you set up a hot water system like ours? It’s been working well up until now. It is gravity powered because it sits up near the eaves. It is not …
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Goodbye and God bless our three Swedelies!
Elin, Sofie, and Veronica will be sorely missed. They have been a wonderful addition for their 6 months with us here at Gamboula. They have brought laughter and music and tenderness and willing spirits and helpful hands and joy, and …
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Where is our own personal nerd herd, Mr. Josh Shinar?!?!
Oh, antennas, routers, computers, switches, power cords, POE’s, all those initials like DHCP and DNS and who knows what… Equipment is biting the dust left and right, alas and alack! We are thankful for email and phone and skype connection …
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A week of ag seminar for our Bayaka(Pygmy) friends
This week has been an overall ag/development seminar for a group of Pygmies, who actually prefer to be called Bayaka. There are 4 women in the group of 18, which is great. They have been learning about how to farm …
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