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On Sunday, Aug 22, Rev. Mossai Sanguma was elected as General Secretary in charge of medical work for the ECC (Eglise du Christ au Congo, aka National Protestant Church of Congo). He presently serves as the President of the Congo …

You can take the boy out of the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy. In this case he keeps going back to what he started doing: driving tractors.

The Congo Ministry …

August 14 was a great day of celebration–the first graduation of students from Ubangi Protestant University, UPU! There were 1,220 people in attendance for the 2-1/2 hour service in town as this 2-year old university conferred Masters in Theology degrees …

Fiasco engineering is a “technical” term our technical service people have used in Congo for years. They say their motto is “we don’t ask you how you broke it and you don’t ask us how we fixed it.”

So what …

Last weekend we traveled to Bangui, CAR on Friday to attend the ordination of Pastor, now Reverend, Jean Bete on Sunday August 8. Bangui is 260 km (150 miles) from Gemena. We accepted the invitation to come along because we …

On Wednesday of this week, we enjoyed meeting Sam & Sarah Snyder and Aaron & Michelle Larsen.

These two couples recently returned and are settling in to live and work at the Elikia (hope) center on the outskirts of town, …

Tim & Helen Smith arrived last Friday to join our missionary team in Congo.   The Smiths spent 3 weeks in Equatorial Guinea during which they visited their friends and the churches they worked in over the past 10 years.  They …

We arrived safely back in Gemena this evening.  3 hours from Gbado-Lite to Loko yesterday and then 13 from Loko to Gemena which included +2 hours in Karawa to repair 2 flat tires.  More stories to come.  We’re pretty tired.…

I’ve tried to come up with adjectives that can best describe the road I drove to Loko on Thursday and I don’t know that any are adequate.  It was probably the most treacherous road I’ve driven here.  Treacherous because there …

We arrived safely in Gemena this morning at 10am. Cindy’s ear did not give her any problems. The two pieces of luggage we checked arrived fine. The remainder of our trunks plus some other stuff we purchased in Kin will …