Are you living out at the CEFA farm yet? That is the question that many of you have asked, so here are two photos of the Danforth house, from Jan. 30th, that will answer that question for you! A picture …
Partnership meetings
This past week almost all the missionaries here at Gamboula had meetings with representatives from the local church, the “E.E.B.” – read Evangelical Baptist Church. It was a good but full 2.5 days of meetings. We actually heard from each …
Seems like things are calm in this neck of the woods
Thank you for your prayers for this country. It seems that things have now calmed down in most places, and that the new government is in place. All of the friends who were temporarily staying with us due to the …
Whoo hooo!!!!!!! We are up and running with decent speed internet!!!!
Well, it isn’t a new species of tree amongst the nursery sacks, it’s a satellite dish in our back yard! The dish was donated to us from generous friends in N. Cameroon, who had switched to a different system. After …
Nadege, development agent extraordinaire!
Nadege has been the pillar of our nutrition outreach program at the mission hospital, but she also takes a major part in growing crops out at the experimental farm and helps to teach village co-operatives. I was surprised to see …
New Fulani friends
Thanks to our colleague, Kim Cone’s, penchant for walking and exploring, we have two new bunches of Fulani friends, not more than a 45 minute walk from us. They are here in our vicinity for their cattle, as this is …
Trying to keep the owl out of the attic
If you had a trap door into your attic that was in your living room, and it was a wood frame with SCREEN on it, and it was situated very nicely, directly beneath a lovely beam, perfect for a perch, …
Peace, at least temporarily, thank you for praying!
There is currently a cease fire and there have been peace talks in neighboring country, so there is relative peace right now in our country of residence. We have heard that there have been changes in the government which are …
On a lighter note, how about a white elephant gift exchange?
In the midst of celebrating the deep joy of Christmas and having oodles of guests – at one point we were 45 people instead of our normal 13! – we have been having goofy fun as well. Here is the …
Please pray for C.A.R.
This is a map of the Central African Republic that was sent out by ICDI before Christmas. I have added a couple of advances, circled in orange, made by the rebels since the map was sent out. There is talk …


