Snails, anyone?

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Yup. The whole thing. Pop it in your mouth, antennas and innards and all. Yum. Roy & Timothy enjoyed them.  Timothy said they tasted a bit like liver, and Roy said they weren’t that strong.  I just watched and ate …

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Hot off the press! Google Earth just updated!

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This is where we live! This photo had to have been taken in the last month or so. If you want to go to Google Earth and get a closer view, just enter these coordinates:

4º06’20.73”N    15 º11’33.66”E

Here is …

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About the Fulani, an good overview by Angsthelm

 

I shared this article on Facebook, in French, and I think it gives a fair overview.  The picture is also from Angsthelm.  Please keep praying for the Fulani!

A free opinion of Bruno Angsthelm, Chargé de mission Africa at

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One last farewell and the mission is feeling empty

blog Tim n Ann 29.7.14Tim & Ann Wester, long time missionaries,I mean, really really long time missionaries, both having grown up in DRCongo, have finished up their term here.  They are heading for the states now, for a year of home assignment, catching up …

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A new group of young professionals “graduated”

IDEs July 14These young people just went through a grueling week of oral and practical exams, supervised by a team from the university in Bangui and our nursing school staff.   They made it, all but one, and now await the temporary diploma …

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Ramadan is over

Nadege, our amazing CEFA ag/nutrition lady, and I just had nice visits with a few Fulani friends in the town across the river.  Ramadan just ended, and we missed the big celebration day, but nonetheless my buddies treated us to …

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Yippee! Internet for the next year!

 

We are thankful and excited; we will have satellite internet for the coming year.  It is still not particularly fast, but it is a whole lot better than our other option, which is an almost non-existent dial-up system through …

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So long to our buddies, the Turks

Our good friends, the Turks, are now officially moved back to Yaounde for this next year.  It ended up that they were needed to fill the position of dorm parents for the school year 2014-2015.  We will sorely miss them …

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To market, to market to buy a fat…

to market to marketOkay, so it’s not a pig.  But isn’t this silly and sad at the same time?  The cow is skinny and tired enough that it’s okay with sitting down for the ride to the market.  What self respecting cow would …

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Roy is 60!


blog roy bdayand he doesn’t look a day over 18!  What a guy!  We decided to celebrate big time a little later.  Right now our friends, the Turks, are packing down all their belongings, planning on leaving for Yaounde tomorrow morning.  Roy …

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