Category Archives: Ceremonies & church happenings

We just celebrated the official wedding of Simeon and Viviane today. Weddings are few and far between because of the great expense, so just setting up a home together after making arrangements between the families is the norm. We have …

Imagine carollers and trick or treaters and New Year’s revellers all rolled into a roiling mass of children roaming the neighborhood, singing in French “Bonne Année, Bonne Année Papa, tu es gentil, donnez moi de francs”, banging on pots and …

This is our head ag guy, Benoit’s, son Maki, being baptized on Christmas Eve morning. What a celebration that was! Everyone cheered and Maki was whisked away on people’s shoulders to put his dry clothes on. Maki has Down’s syndrome …

What a delight our local church’s Sunday school’s Christmas program was! Joseph is the short one in the wild print and Mary is the tall one in the subdued blue. It brought tears to my eyes, thinking of so many …

Today we celebrated Independance Day in C.A.R. There was a parade, complete with many many many marching school children, clowns dressed up as pillow padded beggars acting drunk and dancing lewdly, our hospital crew dressed in scrubs on top of …

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Well, I had typed a comment on Thanksgiving day, and when I checked earlier it hadn’t made it on to our blog, but now, 8 hours later, it is there. We have issues sometimes with our internet connection, so …

I’m so thankful for all the blessings in our lives! I’m thankful for duck and stuffing and all the trimmings, for friends that will gather with us this evening to give thanks to God for all he has done. Our …