BEAN GARDENS for a front yard! Not the usual swept bare dirt, but actually food producing landscaping! Encouraging to see!
Please pray for Desiree
Our energetic local veggie grower has been through an extremely tough time over the past couple of months. He is under treatment for severe pulmonary tuberculosis as well as being on AIDS meds. We thought we might lose him and …
Thanksgiving at Gamboula!
We were a huge crowd, what with 2 Wycliffe families from our nearby banking town, and Dr. Isac from Sweden, and 6.x Norens here. Our normal 13 people was swelled to 28!! It was a great time of fellowship and …
Turkeys, anyone?
Ben, a recent college grad who is here at Gamboula to home school Timothy Turk, has an inordinate love for and drive to raise chickens. Upon arrival to Gamboula in September, he immediately started to try to build a “chicken …
Back online, at least for a little bit!
We have been having such difficulties trying to connect with the internet lately, but this morning it seems to be working! Roy is in Yaounde, after having been able to get our truck repaired – it was a sick puppy!…
Flora or fauna?

A beautiful fuzzy creature, wonderful to admire, but if you touch it – KAZOW!!! You can end up with a swollen hand and be taking meds for the infection and swelling if you can’t stop yourself from itching! Some things …
Wrap your head around this!
This email came awhile ago from a friend, Lucy Dobbs: The True Size of Africa is a map by Kai Krause that truly clarifies just how big this continent is. I mean, you know in your mind it’s big but …
Celebrating the feast of the lamb
We celebrated Abraham’s faithfulness and God’s gift of a ram for sacrifice last Friday with Musxlim friends. Jan Cone, Lori Shinar, and I went to various homes right here in “downtown” Gamboula:
We had some good conversations and some absolutely …
When it rains, it pours!
I’m NOT complaining! Really! We just got done with opening, checking, sorting, and shelving 203 cartons of meds and supplies, and two containers from Sweden arrived and were ready to unload. Here are a couple of photos from our busy …
Hooray, meds arrived!
After months of waiting and having to purchase meds bit by bit, we received our big pharmacy order from Holland. Never mind that it came in two different truckloads, one arriving at 7:30 PM! and the next one at 10PM!!! …






