We heard the real story about March 24th, and the aspects are mixed, good & bad. We left a little after 2 pm that afternoon, and a renegade group, originally but no longer affiliated with the Sele-ka, came onto the …
Stories from across the border 3 the good and the bad
Stories from across the border 2
When Roy & Luke & Leanne & Kim & Rose-Marie arrived to the small town on the Cameroon side of the river, they were welcomed to a lovely guesthouse at a Catholic mission there. Five leaders from Gamboula came across …
Stories from across the border
Meet Benoit Y., friend and helper. This is one of the men who helped us to leave the mission in a timely manner on March 24th. If not for his surveillance of the situation, we may have driven with our …
May prayer requests
Dear Family and Friends,
Again we come to you with one basic request for prayer this month, but it has many facets:
Please pray for peace and order in the Central African Republic.
We still are hearing from our African …
Light up ahead!
As I think about our friends, our home, our opportunities to show how much God loves us and how we can’t be there, I can’t help but grieve. This is a dark and sad place to be, to think of …
Roy & the Turks on an important trip!!!!
If you noticed me writing in the first person singular just now, it’s because I’m by myself for a bit. Roy and Luke and Leanne Turk
took off this morning for a 6 day trip to the border town here …
Home away from home
Here at the SIL/Wycliffe guesthouse in the big busy city of Yaounde, we each have our own little cubicle rooms with bed, table & chair, and wannabe closet, but we share bathrooms and the dining area and kitchen. I happen …
Random acts of kindness
The power was out last night, and there we were, Roy & I, sitting at our computers, in the dark, sweltering in our little room at the SIL/Wycliffe guesthouse in Yaounde. It is a small room with no cross ventilation, …
It took HOW MANY HOURS??!?!
Ay ay ay! We are living in Cameroon, in a sort of exile cum refugee state of being, and in order to be here legally, we need to register our vehicle with a temporary permission slip. In order to survive, …
Kribi! We are blessed!
Here are some images of our time at the beach thus far. We have been here since March 28th, and have enjoyed many different configurations of friends before, during, and after our Covenant missionary fellowship. Sometimes serious and worshipful, sometimes …
