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Here’s what our household looks like now, well with only a couple small additions.   Kind of amazing to think about.  Since I took this I’ve now added our rolled up double bed foam mattress.  I was pleased that it came …

Yes, indeed.  What a jigsaw puzzle this sorting and packing to get stuff on the plane is.  We will fly to Gemena, DRC in a Cessna 206.  This is a 6 passenger plane with a small luggage pod under the …

We arrived in Yaounde, Cameroon on Friday, March 18. Everything with our trip went fine. It was good to have 4 hours between planes in Brussels. Cindy even found a spot with padded benches and no arm rests where she …

Here are photos of the new Rain Forest International School under construction.  These are from December 2009.  You can find more at Carolyn Stoker’s facebook and at the RFIS webpage: www.rfis.org.

From this view you have the school entrance in …

This article is a good introduction to some of the food security and production issues even in Kenya, a country which can produce a lot of food.

IRIN report: Experts voice food security concerns

As we find many places, the …

I am glad to see these two articles on CNN.  They point to an important issue that has too often been misunderstood in our churches, that Islam is not a religion of terrorism and violence, but one of peace.   I …

Friday evening, February 12 we enjoyed our niece Kirsten Ekstrand’s junior recital at Moody.  She played 2 beautiful sacred pieces plus works by Brahms, Beethoven and Chopin.  She gave an OUTSTANDING performance.  Bravo Kirsten.

Then on Valentine’s Day we rode …

Thanks to Keith Gustafson who just returned from Congo we have pictures of the progress on our house.  The picture of digging the foundation was from November.  To the Right we have the status of the walls as of Feb …

The week before going to Sudan Cindy and I attended a 5 day Training of Trainers for Community Health Evangelism.  We learned some excellent principles which we were able to incorporate into our presentations in Sudan.  

We used the River …

Friday and Saturday were filled with visits and meetings.  We visited the new houses being constructed for the church leaders.  It was encouraging to see them almost completed.  We also drove out to the outskirts of town to see where …