Monthly Archives: May 2014

Sportin’ headwear!

A couple of weeks ago, our head construction guy, Gabi, got bonked in the head with a board, so Roy purchased some hardhats for the builders.  Now all the workers want them – even the ones who are weeding gardens …

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Please keep the prayers going!

While peace continues in our little town of Gamboula and many of my Muslixm friends continue on with life as best they can just across the border,

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there continues to be conflict in many places in the rest of the …

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Cattle on the highway!

What do you do when you see this in front of you on the only road between you and home?

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You wait.

blog 5.14 cattle in road2And they pass by.

blog 5.14 cattle in road3And you see some more. And you wait. And they pass by.

blog 5.14 cattle in road4And you …

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Whoo hoooooo!!! We’ve got internet, and electricity again at the farm!

Thanks to Josh Shinar’s and Luke Turk’s willingness to come and help us out, we now have lights that work at night, cell phones that work right inside our house, and internet that works right there in our living room!  …

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Pastor B

blog 5.14 Past. B n moto (1) blog 5.14 Past. BOur dear friend and colleague, Pastor B, has long had the Fulani people on his heart.  He was commissioned by the local Baptist church as a missionary pastor to the Fulani and other Muslixm people.  Because of the recent ethnic …

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A new baby for Chief T’s clan

Tickle me pink, I got to hold little Abdallah Basfar, as a 2 day old!  He is the grandson of the late Chief T and my best friend Hajja Hawa, and is the son of Chief T’s youngest child.  Here …

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Kribi

We were treated to an amazing sunset one night, which included the rare sightings of both the Equatorial Guinea island (the two parts of which are nearest the sun in the photo) AND Mount Cameroon (near the crook of the …

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New friends at Kribi

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Who’da thunk we’d meet these 2 dear people at Kribi and end up friends so quickly?  Andrea and Bernhard from Germany showed up in a room next to us at the beach at Kribi, having arrived on motorbike after travelling …

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Our buddies, the Cones, heading stateside

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What can we say?  We so enjoy Jan & Kim Cone!  They are our colleagues in Fulani ministry, the parents of one of our daughters-in-law and therefore co-grandparents of 3 of our grandchildren, the ones we can talk to about …

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