Ramadan’s almost over

Ramadan is nearly over with for this year, and we are hoping that our Fulani friends are blessed by dreams and visions of the Messiah. Please pray especially for them on their night of prayer/power, when they stay up all …

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Creative Ironing 101

Well, if you have a Swedish style ironing board that doesn’t have a tip small enough for ironing shoulder seams, what do you do??? You use your hand!!! Here’s Mattieu ironing a blouse shoulder. Thankfully I found out that he …

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August Prayer concerns

Thank you for caring enough to pray!
The leadership seminars in the ag/development co-ops out in 15 villages went well.
YIPPEE! YAY, GOD!! Our son, Sam , passed the technical evaluation exams (July 23-31) for entrance into mission with MAF …

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The Olympics, real time at Gamboula??? No way!!

Yes, courtesy of Tim & Ann Wester, missionary colleagues, we watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics last night, AS IT HAPPENED!!!! Now, to help you understand how excited we were to watch the Queen jump out of the helicopter …

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Haliima

This is Halima, a dear Fulani friend. She has a very rough life, raising 6 kids on her own, as her husband left her many years back. One of her children, Abdoulaye Roy, died last year. She recently came to …

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Pray for Sam!

Our son, Sam, is going through technical exams right now to hopefully become an MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) airplane mechanic.  I talked to Anna, his wife, last night and I understand that it is not easy, but meetings with the …

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Please pray for our buddy

Please pray for our long time friend and worker, Mr. H.  He is very troubled right now, with physical and spiritual problems.  We long for him to have peace in his heart and mind, and healing for his body, for …

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The beach!!!

We recently had a wonderful 10 days of complete relaxation at the beach with dear friends Tim and Helen Smith.  We laughed and played games, ate alot, walked on the beach and watched movies, ate alot, did puzzles and some …

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Visiting med students


We recently had 4 young people come to help and learn at our mission hospital. The two guys, Josh and Matt, are med students from Canada, and the couple(recently engaged) are Marshal and Hannah, a pre-med student and nursing student. …

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Five Smooth Stones

An excellent book by Ann Fairburn – don’t be misled by the cover picture…there is a love story that winds through it, but there is MUCH more to the book than that. It tells the life story of, you might …

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