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 …
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 …
Two Sundays in a row we’ve had special ceremonies at church – last Sunday was the “Sister’s Union” and this week it was “Women of the Good News or who speak the truth or …” (Sango is a language of …
To answer a comment: We have all sorts of flowers here that Roy has imported that resemble the bird of paradise, and they are called heliconias. Here’s one example:
They bloom easily and often because they’re more adapted to this …
You pass by a group of kids, laughing and poking little sticks down termite holes, and you say “Thank you Lord for some extra protein in their tummies!” They gather the termites on the sticks, and they might eat them …
These are our folks, and they are all 80+! Roy’s mom, Mary, had a heart attack while they were on their annual desert camping trek. Thankfully they had just come back from camping, and were in Tucson, near Chet’s sister’s …
Okay, some of the teenaged guys are wearing the bleach faded jeans down so low that their underwear shows, and I know that fashion trend was happening big time in the states before we left in 2008, but what I …
There was a consecration ceremony for 12 people today at a neighborhood Baptist church. I attended the ceremony and was blessed by the words of encouragement to follow what the bible says about deacons and elders. Good words for any …
A few days back we woke up to the local church youth group playing drums and singing, songs about their faith in God. They were having a big ol’ early morning youth meeting, and when we went outside to get …
