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Monthly Archives: July 2014
One last farewell and the mission is feeling empty
Tim & Ann Wester, long time missionaries,I mean, really really long time missionaries, both having grown up in DRCongo, have finished up their term here. They are heading for the states now, for a year of home assignment, catching up …
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A new group of young professionals “graduated”
These young people just went through a grueling week of oral and practical exams, supervised by a team from the university in Bangui and our nursing school staff. They made it, all but one, and now await the temporary diploma …
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Ramadan is over
Nadege, our amazing CEFA ag/nutrition lady, and I just had nice visits with a few Fulani friends in the town across the river. Ramadan just ended, and we missed the big celebration day, but nonetheless my buddies treated us to …
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Yippee! Internet for the next year!
We are thankful and excited; we will have satellite internet for the coming year. It is still not particularly fast, but it is a whole lot better than our other option, which is an almost non-existent dial-up system through …
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So long to our buddies, the Turks
Our good friends, the Turks, are now officially moved back to Yaounde for this next year. It ended up that they were needed to fill the position of dorm parents for the school year 2014-2015. We will sorely miss them …
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To market, to market to buy a fat…
Okay, so it’s not a pig. But isn’t this silly and sad at the same time? The cow is skinny and tired enough that it’s okay with sitting down for the ride to the market. What self respecting cow would …
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Roy is 60!
and he doesn’t look a day over 18! What a guy! We decided to celebrate big time a little later. Right now our friends, the Turks, are packing down all their belongings, planning on leaving for Yaounde tomorrow morning. Roy …
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Trimming the palm trees
It’s time for trimming the palm trees – they’re harvesting the palm nuts for oil and also clearing off the dead branches; cleaning up just in time for the big church conference next week. It’s a looooong way up …
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Ramadan
Oops! Here we are already a week into Ramadan, and I didn’t mention it in our prayer requests!
June 28 marked the beginning of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. Please join us in praying for Muslims around the world …
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