We’ve got rain!!!

Oh my goodness, we are so very grateful for the downpour of about 2.5 inches last night! Normally rainy season starts in mid-March, and we had had one good rain and were hopeful, but then everything dried up and was …

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Labor Day festivities

May 1st is Labor Day in this country, and is celebrated with a day off and a parade and a feast of some sort. We were invited to the government party “downtown”. It was a raucous beer drinking and dancing …

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Teenage boys’ afternoon pasttime?


These boys want to earn a little spending money, so they make, yes, brooms! They go out in fields and pick handfuls of wild grasses and clean them up a little and tie them together at the handle with thin …

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Prayer requests for May

Dear Friends and Family,

Thank you for praying along with us about what is going on here at Gamboula.

We are thankful that the CEFA board meeting went well, with long journeys to and from the meeting completed in safety.…

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Have you ever carolled on Easter?

He is risen! Alleluia! I joined with a small group of ladies who, every year, starting before the sun comes up, walk through the neighborhood, singing songs about how our Lord has risen from the dead. Aside from occasional stumbling …

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Baking bread


Irene, a friend who is a pastor’s wife in a town about 60miles but a 2.5 hours’ drive away, came to see her father who was sick and in the hospital. In order to get here she had to hitch …

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Seder supper


The missionary group here at Gamboula got together to celebrate Passover and especially remember what our ultimate sacrificial lamb, Jesus, did for us. We kind of had to make do with the different elements of the feast, but I think …

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More visitors come and gone


Greg is a pastor, who with his wife, Noell, have a desire to see people free of evil spirits and demons. There were no frothing at the mouth, screaming exorcisms going on, but amongst these people who so firmly believe …

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a visitor, come and gone!

Jacob Smith is a British SIL/Wycliffe missionary kid who grew up in Cameroon and a recent high school grad. He expressed an interest in coming to Gamboula for a couple weeks to see what we’re up to. He helped with …

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Palm Sunday


Today we celebrated Palm Sunday, remembering Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, the beginning of his final week with us a human. As I look around me, I see all of nature lifting branches and colors in praise of the creator! Even …

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