Category Archives: Mission

Thank the Lord for protection!

Posted on September 12, 2012 by danforth

The CEFA (ag project’s) truck almost went into the drink two weeks ago!  You can’t really see, but there is about a six foot drop into a stream underneath the log bridge that the truck is stuck on.  Thankfully it …

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The Shinars are here!!! Hip hip hooray!!!

Posted on September 10, 2012 by danforth

We are so jazzed to have Josh, Lori, and Charlie (Charlotte) Shinar finally here at Gamboula with us.  They have been on the continent since May, but were doing some preliminary Fulfulde study up in northern Cameroon.  They have been …

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Ramadan’s almost over

Posted on August 15, 2012 by danforth

Ramadan is nearly over with for this year, and we are hoping that our Fulani friends are blessed by dreams and visions of the Messiah. Please pray especially for them on their night of prayer/power, when they stay up all …

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Haliima

Posted on July 27, 2012 by danforth

This is Halima, a dear Fulani friend. She has a very rough life, raising 6 kids on her own, as her husband left her many years back. One of her children, Abdoulaye Roy, died last year. She recently came to …

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Please pray for our buddy

Posted on July 26, 2012 by danforth

Please pray for our long time friend and worker, Mr. H.  He is very troubled right now, with physical and spiritual problems.  We long for him to have peace in his heart and mind, and healing for his body, for …

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Visiting med students

Posted on July 26, 2012 by danforth


We recently had 4 young people come to help and learn at our mission hospital. The two guys, Josh and Matt, are med students from Canada, and the couple(recently engaged) are Marshal and Hannah, a pre-med student and nursing student. …

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Five Smooth Stones

Posted on July 19, 2012 by danforth

An excellent book by Ann Fairburn – don’t be misled by the cover picture…there is a love story that winds through it, but there is MUCH more to the book than that. It tells the life story of, you might …

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Back to Africa

Posted on May 25, 2012 by danforth

We arrived Tuesday evening to Yaounde, Cameroon, our big city stop before we return to the boonies where we normally live.  We arrived safe and sound – well maybe not 100% sound, but when have we ever been that, with …

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Clarification

Posted on March 31, 2012 by danforth

I just wanted to add a note to the item about our friends who were recently baptized and are reading the bible now; they are not among our close neighbors, they are in another country, a 2 days’ drive from …

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Friends, berries, and apple cider

Posted on March 22, 2012 by danforth

Wherever we go, Roy is always interested in the crops of the area.  Our trip to WA was no exception, and we were fascinated to see how raspberries are cared for to provide the best yields.

We were able to …

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