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Parading part of the way to the church after we arrived today is part of the way we were welcomed.  It was a beautiful sunny day as you can see, but not as warm as we expected, only about 85 …

In the village of Bobanga Yange SIBA was one of the men selected by the Bodokola church conference to attend the Community Health Evangelism (CHE) training we held in February 2012. Upon returning Yange shared what he learned with the …

“Only 30 girls are attending primary school and 10 girls are attending secondary school out of over 2,000 girls in the Libala church region”, shared Rev. Corine Kikwiti.  “My heart was so sad when I heard these statistics.  I asked …

Recently I mentioned to a friend that I was going to go to a sale where they auctioned off a wide variety of farm equipment.  They asked me, well what do you mean?  I went on to try to describe …

The Covenant Kids Congo (CKC) powered by World Vision project in the Gemena area of Congo is moving forward.  I just received these pictures from Rev. Mboka, President of the Congo Covenant Church (CEUM is the French acronym).  …

I felt  richly blessed last Saturday evening with conversation and singing with missionary colleagues and children of colleagues at Jeff & Carolyn Stoker’s house in Vista, CA.  It was a rich, rich feeling of pleasure being together with a precious …

Pastor Simon Kamau, President of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Kenya, visited several Iowa farms a couple weeks ago.  Simon came to the US to take a course on pastoral counseling at Denver Seminary.  We got the pleasure of hosting …

“Opportunities and Challenges for the Church Africa” was the theme of the first ever Consultation of Leaders of the Family of Africa Covenant Churches. Tuesday and Wednesday Dennis Tongoi really challenged us to consider the kind of churches we are …

Our biennial Africa missionary spiritual retreat, what we call Fellowship, was again at this beautiful hotel on the beach S of Kribi, Cameroon.  The setting, the accommodations, the meals (yummy chocolate …

The Consultation is off to a GREAT start.  Today we had informative presentations by 6 of the denominations represented.  They told us about their history, their ministry, details about the extent …