God gave Roy the gift of a Sunday afternoon, fishing with the kids, and his smile says it all, doesn’t it?
How do you spell healing?
A place of peace to run to, to wrestle with stresses and losses (not belongings though that also was involved,, but relationships, security, ministry, and the like) and let them go as we find rest and energy again as precious …
It was not supposed to be a literal break
at least that’s what my friend Janet Z wrote on my cast
We were having a lovely vacation at Kribi, the beachtown on the Atlantic coast,

enjoying a break from the usual AND the unusual tensions of Gamboula. We were …
Please keep praying for our Fulani friends
Please keep the prayers going for health and peace and especially for salvation for our Fulani friends living across the border.
These kids’ papa has built a new home for them there in the town that I visit each week. …
Call the phone repairman!
Okay, so the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed that our phone signal has been weak. So, what do we do? Call the repairman, right? Nope. Roy gets up on the ladder and tweaks the antenna back into position while …
New blooms in our yard
Who is that out there?
How many times have I done a double take, seeing the figure on the right out of the corner of my eye? This is my view out the dining room window. Usually Stephan, the guy with the red shirt on, …
Everybody wants to be cool

Big or little, for real or pretend, everyone wants to be cool, to fit in, all in the name of what? To what end? To be noticed? To be special? To be loved?
Or maybe we’re just having fun, really …
Sights from our trip to the big city
We had to travel to Yaounde, a mere 10 hours’ truck drive away, to take care of various items of business, including getting our truck repaired and having a new timing belt put in. Yes, we hit the 100,000 …
The continuing saga of water and electricity at the farm
Remember last week when lightning hit at the farm? I had said that we thought at that time that the generator AND the water pump were fine, that we had only lost our alternative power system with its inverter and …





