People wanting to make things better

??????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????? blog fix the villageThere’s a group that Roy just joined that is interested in making the town of Gamboula a better place to live.  They met yesterday and spoke of reading lessons and  weekly volunteer clean-up crews just to name a couple, and …

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Vegetable garden co-ops! Amazing!

Roy & Tom & Nadege, our veggie garden specialist at CEFA, visited 3 co-op gardens across the border among the Fulani refugees the other day.  They were super encouraged by the energy and obvious enthusiasm for taking care of these …

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Rain! Hail! Wind! Moisture! Mud even! Yippee!

We are so thankful for another rain in the midst of this very dust dry season.  Even if it means so trimming and repair work.???????????????????????????????So I guess if you’re a tall drink of water and you were trying to …

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Home is where the heart is

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Seems like just about every time I’m out in the truck, whether it has been a morning’s work at the mission or a long hot day’s visit across the river, when I see the group of kolongo palm trees just …

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There is hope for reconciliation in CAR! Please keep praying!

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While there are maps being circulated showing the proposed division of the country of Central African Republic into 2 separate entities, the president of C.A.R. has sent out her cabinet ministers with UN reps to start up reconciliation initiatives in …

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Preparing ground for palm and cocoa orchards

Roy has kept Tom busy and very hot for many days now, as they stake out 15 acres of palm and 5 acres of cocoa orchards.  They are trying to keep the measurements as accurate as possible, and there have …

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Seminar for village ag co-operatives at the CEFA farm

Leaders from village ag co-ops gathered for a few days at the CEFA farm last week.  They had worship and tours, reports about successes and failures, and various lessons and teachings to encourage the participants before they returned home.

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Thankful for water in our hose

That may seem like a simple statement, but when you’ve had no rain for months, (as many of you know) it’s a luxury to be able to water your plants.  Antonio, our friend and worker that keeps our yard and …

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13 hour road trip

We needed to get to the big city of Yaoundé this week and the only way to get there was to travel over our not so favorite road which demands a minimum of 12 hours of our time to cover …

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Thankful for rain!

 

We had our first rain since November, and boy it was a gully gusher complete with hailstones.  We were rushing back to the farm to close our windows, but had to pull over under a tree to try to …

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