Category Archives: Prayer requests

Rain! Rain! Thank you, Lord

Posted on March 2, 2016 by danforth

This dry season has been THE WORST in our ag director’s memory.  We usually have a Christmas rain during the normal 4 month dry season.  This year they went 3 months, 1 week, and 1 day with no rain!  They’ve …

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The new president of CAR?

Posted on February 25, 2016 by danforth

The vote on February 14th passed peaceably, but there has been some protest about the counting of the ballots.  Click this to get the story.

Here are two missionary colleagues, visiting with Former Prime Minister Faustin Touadera.  He asked John …

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The big vote in CAR passed peaceably, now for Feb 14th

Posted on January 7, 2016 by danforth

More about the vote

We are so thankful that peace seems to be reigning in C.A.R. right now.  Close friends in the capital write that people are out and about on the streets like they haven’t been in almost 3 …

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“Replanning…”

Posted on October 3, 2015 by danforth

When you hear bad news like this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34398173?SThisFB

about the country you’ve been praying for and hoping to go back to, or when your GPS says you’re hovering over deep water and it needs to replan

blog replanning

or your car catches …

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A week full of friends and family = a full heart!

Posted on September 16, 2015 by danforth

We had a delightful time being with Steve and Launa and their daughter Kari’s family on the nut farm (they have almonds).  Hey, how do you pronounce almonds?  With the “l”?  With an “ah” for the “a” or an “a” …

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Dalene

Posted on September 6, 2015 by danforth

Our dear friend and colleague, Dalene, has passed away, right on the heels of our buddy, J’s, death.  Dalene was one of those sweet, quiet, in the background women.  Even when she was feeling poorly, she seemed to come up …

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We’re going to Kansas City, Kansas City here we come!

Posted on September 2, 2015 by danforth

We were in Kansas City, not to see the Royals, but to attend Christian Veterinary Missions annual conference, called “Shortcourse”.  CVM put us up at the retreat center and fed us royally AND gave us the opportunity to share with …

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Our dear friend, J, has passed away

Posted on September 2, 2015 by danforth

This man, community leader, father, grandfather, great grandfather, business colleague, and most importantly our buddy, has passed away of heart disease.  We had shared times of crisis and joy, and enjoyed a rich friendship with J.  It had been many …

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Thanking the Lord for the gift of good health

Posted on August 2, 2015 by danforth

I’m not going to put up the photo of a shirtless Roy with his heart monitor on, but he and I both had some follow up testing after our routine physicals, and we’ve gotten the all okay from our Dr.!  …

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Thank you for praying on July 10th!

Posted on July 18, 2015 by danforth

July 10th is our day in the Covenant prayer calendar, and we (me, Roy, Josh, Kimia, Maddie, Maia, & Emrie) were on our way to the zoo, zoo, zoo!!!  We had gotten off the freeway and were heading up a …

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