“I am a fruit of the church,” stated Jacques Gbadana Moya at the party celebrating his graduation last Saturday. Gbadana, as he is called here, graduated with distinction with a Masters in French from the Protestant University in Mbandaka. He …
Sep 30
Come on over for Dessert!
Wanna come over for desert after a few hours?
We’re not sure how long it will take for the pumpkin (squash) pie to cook and cool, but it’s in the oven.
Wish you could come, and bring the whipped cream!…
Sep 24
Excellent CHE Vision Seminar
The vision/training seminar for CHE (Community Health Evangelism) last week went very well. All the 22 participants fully engaged with the material and the teaching style. In our experience in Congo we have only seen and used the common didactic …
Sep 18
Truck arrived
Enjoy the picture of our new Hilux. We will take off the covered back that came with it because the frame is only made of tubing and will break very easily. We will have the technical services here make something …
Sep 16
We have new neighbors!
As of last Saturday the 11th, Tim’s birthday, we have new neighbors. Colleagues Tim and Helen Smith moved the long distance, 100 meters, from the guest house to their new house which is about 80 feet from ours. Pray for …
Sep 10
Friends
Cindy was in Tandala a week ago and saw Mambo and family briefly. She took this picture of them all. Eben is 7 weeks old.
Sep 05
Exciting Election Results!
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 …
Sep 04
Comfort Food
What are your comfort foods? Several weeks ago we brought an expensive ($20) pound of cheese back from Bangui and were able to have one of ours: grilled cheese sandwiches! YUMM! Were they ever good. Since we don’t have a …
Sep 01
John Deere made it to 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.
- Pete driving the tractor
The Congo Ministry …
Aug 28
Baking over Charcoal
Cindy has started learning how to bake using a large pot on a charcoal cooker, called an ebambola in Lingala. What she was told to do was to get a pot larger than the pan you want to bake in, …
