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Category Archives: Family & Friends
Not Roy’s week
Roy was the first one to use the new jar of pepper…
and he bravely ate around the biggest part of the spill, not quite the Exxon Valdez, but bad enough. He normally loves pepper, well, especially hot chili peppers, …
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Celebrating Jesus’ birth
It’s summertime in S. Africa. School has just finished and families are heading off for summer vacation. Businesses slow down and tourists fill the area, in spite of the great white sharks roaming about in the nearby ocean. Because of …
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Making Christmas cookies
If the Hallelujah chorus comes on, no matter what you’re doing, you’ve just got to sing along! This is joy!
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Thanksgiving
We are thankful for our family, friends, and the way the Lord has blessed us through circumstances this past year. There is a myriad of reasons why it is a challenge to live this life but it seems to me …
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In South Africa!!!
We made it to South Africa with ALL our luggage, including Roy’s trunk full of plants. We will be in South Africa for three months, getting involved in the ministries at Genesis, the non-profit that Sam & Anna work with. …
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Thoughtful friends
How about this: the Lord has gifted us with colleagues, Kim & Jan, who are kindred spirits AND co-grandparents (read: our son married their daughter) AND a couple of people who think about other people and do something about it! …
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1 step forward too many steps back to count
Please pray! Due to a few events this past week, we no longer have Fulani patients in our hospital. There have been verbal threats, general harassment, and physical attacks. We had just begun to see a consistent number of Muslixm …
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Al & Josef’s visit
Over the weekend we had the privilege of hosting Al Tizon, Director of the Covenant’s Serve Globally, and Josef Rasheed, Regional Coordinator for Covenant’s mission work in Africa. It was a very special time, getting to know these two men …
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New kids on the block
We have literally, a bunch of new kids on the block, around Gamboula! I neglected to share about the Huntley family when they arrived a few months’ back, and now we have the Parker family here with us as well. …
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Remembering Dr. Rog
A dear friend passed away last week and though he was in his eighties, his death was a shocking surprise, the result of a fall with a bang on the head. Dr. Rog was a sweet and humble man, always …
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