Daily Archives: May 15, 2018

Helpers

Bless their bones, these two, Elaina and Sawyer, usually put in some precious Saturday-off-school time helping with whatever is going on around the farm.  You might find them helping to fill nursery sacks or helping their dad build something, but …

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Clearing the fenceline

Roy and helpers are hard at work prepping the strip of land where the fence will go, which will protect the fruit orchards at the farm.  It was not easy to leave CAR, but it is a gift to be …

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Happy Mother’s Day

When I think of the moms that I know, I’m blown away at the love that abounds, at all the differences in mothering styles, at the children who have grown up so well under the care of these nurturers.   I …

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Celebrating 40 years in missions in Africa

We arrived to Loko, Zaire, on May 11, 1978, as green as any newbie could be.  When we climbed out of that 5 seater prop airplane onto the dirt airstrip, we felt like we had stepped into the pages of …

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Home sweet home

We left our little house on the CEFA farm in CAR and returned to our kids’ home and our ministries in South Africa.  The feelings are mixed.  Peace remains the standard in Gamboula, so we, of course, try to second …

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The Ajamiiya script Fulfulde bible is printed!


What a gift from God, an answer to long time prayer!  We are thrilled and delighted to now have the Fulfulde bible in a script the Fulani can read; the whole bible, in one book, not the previous myriad of …

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