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More Monday news

Here are some of the ladies from Mondays across the border. Some of them are having a difficult time participating in their co-ops, so after the bible story I read them the story of “The Little Red Hen”. Boy, did …

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Nutrition center at Gamboula

What a crowd we’ve had at the nutrition center continually all this year. In this photo, the kids are wearing the warm clothes, yes, warm clothes and knit caps that caring folks in Sweden sent in a recent ocean container. …

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Monday afternoons

Nadege (nutrition garden supervisor) and I meet every Monday afternoon with a group of Muslim women. We chat and we talk about garden co-ops and health and we tell bible stories. Here are photos of the faithful 3, Apiruuwa, Hajara, …

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Postponing Mother’s Day?!?

Yes, well, last Sunday was Mother’s Day in Europe and should have been here in C.A.R. I guess the powers that be in this area didn’t have their bouquets picked and their chiffon pie made yet, smile! Seriously, the local …

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Such a difference between two worlds here

I was sitting in church (local Baptist) this morning, and the woman next to me got excited about a special music presentation for Pentecost Sunday, so she let go with an ululation (I’m pretty sure that’s the word) that just …

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Our medicine order is paid for!!!

Oh how very thankful we are to God and some donors in Sweden for the possibility of filling these almost empty main pharmacy shelves at our mission hospital. We just paid for a shipment to come from Holland, and it …

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Containers coming and going!



We just unloaded two forty foot containers from Sweden at Gamboula this week. Our mission hospital storerooms are now absolutely crammed full. Included in the shipment were hospital beds and sheets and lots of supplies for the work here. We …

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Bridges!

 

 

 

Wait a minute! Three bridges and a photo of Fulani? I guess I just wanted to emphasize that the work that we do here with our Mxslim friends is all about bridge building. We are building bridges …

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The bigwigs together and a GREAT Berberati trip!


We had such a good trip yesterday to Berberati along with our regional coordinators, John & Letha Kerl, who are visiting from Lyon, France. You might remember their names as the ones who hosted Roy during his tooth crisis over …

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“The plane is broken”

I don’t know about you, but those are not words that I like to hear. Our regional coordinators, John & Letha Kerl, were scheduled to fly to Gamboula today, Saturday, on the single prop 5 passenger SIL mission Cessna. Also …

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