I have written before about the groups of Fulani moving through our area with their cattle, about their being new acquaintances. Our colleague (& father-in-law to our Josh), Kim Cone, has become friends with these ones and over the course …
A week ago Friday was our local church’s official day for prayer for and celebration of women. Last Friday was March 8, International Women’s Day, and there was a small parade downtown, lots of individual parties and prayer, and many …
So, Lori and I went down to see tiny 2 month old Hammadou, and we are so encouraged by his weight gain and we thank you for your prayers for him! He came in weighing around 1.350 kg/3lbs. and now, …
Dearest friends and family, how can we even begin to tell you how thankful we are for each of you? How can we tell you how it feels to receive an email from our mission office letting us know that …
As Lori and I were praying our way through the maternity ward at the hospital, we ran into an old friend of mine, Rayaanatu. She was helping out at the bedside of a friend who had a premature baby. Rayaa …
This morning as Lori and I made our way through the rooms in the maternity ward, praying for the new moms and the waiting-to-be moms and the moms who just lost their babies, we met Hammadou and his mama. Hammadou …
Well, not exactly. We picked up the chameleon, below, on our trip to Yaounde, but we went to Yaounde to do some shopping for construction supplies and to pick up Timothy Chapman, who has come to be with us for …
There we were, Luke Turk, Roy, Heidi Renkema & I, tooling along on the dirt road portion of our trip to Yaounde, Cameroon, last week, when all of a sudden, Luke puts on the brakes and says, “chameleon!” Luke is …
There seems to be continued “relative” peace in the capital, and all our friends who were with us, mostly over Christmas and New Year’s (we had a total of 58 people at our mission station one night) have either returned …
Saturday was a BIG day here at Gamboula. The hospital celebrated their 40 years of service here in this region. There was a lovely ceremony in the church with choirs singing and testimonies given, including two of the nurses who …
