{"id":4381,"date":"2017-03-21T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2017-03-21T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:32:10","slug":"rs-phone-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2017\/03\/21\/rs-phone-book\/","title":{"rendered":"R&#8217;s phone book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful time catching up with R \u2013 it\u2019s been probably 2 years since I\u2019d seen her.\u00a0 She was once the wife of our gardener, H, and was so very helpful in the translation of health pamphlets into Fulfulde.\u00a0 She is now the youngest wife of four wives and longs to have a baby.\u00a0 She loves children and she helps her co-wives take care of all of theirs.\u00a0 She was a Fulani children\u2019s teacher in Gamboula before the war, and when I entered the compound with a \u201cSalaam aleykum\u201d, I found her helping a Hausa woman friend learn Fulfulde.\u00a0 She\u2019s a natural born teacher with gentleness and compassion oozing out of her.\u00a0 She caught me up with the situation of a family of friends dear to both of us, and then she wanted to give me their telephone numbers.\u00a0 She pulled out the basket full of scraps with numbers jotted on them, most of them just numbers, no names, not even in Arabic script! I confess I giggled a bit, and teased her a bit about her papers. She did pull a tiny book out of the bottom of the basket, but again, inside there were just a lot of numbers with few names. \u00a0Her telephone had been stolen and she was guarding hard copies in case it happened again, but oh my, I think she needs someone to organize her telephone book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-phone-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4382\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-phone-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-phone-book.jpg 424w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-phone-book-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4383\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-R.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-R-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was great fun to visit with her and even though she has had some relief from a painful condition, she may be in need of an operation at our mission hospital.\u00a0 Now that there are many Fulani patients around, she feels better about coming over sometime for treatment when we\u2019re back from our retreat (after the first week in April).\u00a0 Please pray for R, that she would understand the loving grace of the Messiah and how about praying that she might experience the joy of her own baby in her arms?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/blog-R.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=4381&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful time catching up with R \u2013 it\u2019s been probably 2 years since I\u2019d seen her.\u00a0 She was once the wife of our gardener, H, and was so very helpful in the translation of health pamphlets into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2017\/03\/21\/rs-phone-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,336,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-meetings-with-m-friends","category-fun","category-ministry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R&#039;s phone book! 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