Thanksgiving

I’m so thankful for all the blessings in our lives! I’m thankful for duck and stuffing and all the trimmings, for friends that will gather with us this evening to give thanks to God for all he has done. Our …

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Is that a melon or what???

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They are papayas! The seed came from ECHO in Florida, originally from Thailand. They are sweet and kind of red inside instead of orange. We are harvesting fruit less than a year after planting the seed.

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Bricks

.brickmakingThe beginning of the dry season has normally started by now, but this year has been a weird one all ’round for weather. These brickmakers were counting on the weather being dry, but instead they are hurriedly putting a …

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Prayer day

Yesterday (Saturday) we missionaries spent the day in prayer, focusing on the different ministries with a big emphasis on troubles at the hospital, and then praying for each individual. We shared in communion, and our time together was sweet and …

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Haruuna & Hammadou

ham-har-reading1109-0151Today was a fun day, translating a health tract (on scabies; ICK!) into Arabic script fulfulde, with Haruuna, our gardener’s brother. BUT the best part of my sessions with Haruuna is when his brother, Hammadou, comes in and they read …

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CEFA land

Roy has been checking out many different possible sites for the CEFA ag project. He and Benoit, his right hand man, have walked many kilometers, looking at the type of soil, the water sources, the boundary situations and the current …

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Watch out Walmart

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Well, I thought you might be interested to know there’s a new store going up on the entry road to our hospital mission station! I was glad to see that they have installed a ramp, because two days ago I …

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Fadi’s gone

I took Fadi (the woman with breast cancer) to the cemetery on Friday, and I don’t know if she believed in the Savior before she died. We loaded her and all the belongings her family had brought to the hospital …

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Fadi

Greetings from the hot & humid tropics!

Imagine yourself, a Fulani Musxlim woman, taking care of your 38year old sister, Fadi, who is dying of breast cancer. She is the mother of three children, the youngest being only nine months …

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