What a difference a year (give or take a bit) makes!

The look of RFIS has really changed in the last year.  It is sometimes hard to tell how much it has changed when you are present day by day.  But I think these pictures will give you an idea of …

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Ethiopian Impressions

I spent last week in Ethiopia serving on an accreditation team for a school.  I found Ethiopia to be a beautiful country, with a lovely climate (at least in Addis Ababa), and many friendly people.  The majority of my time …

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A Prayer Chapel – a place to pray

When Rain Forest International School moved to its new location one of the things left behind was the prayer chapel on the old location.  While looking at our new site plans and finally the buildings one of our graduates who …

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Joining together

We have just returned to Yaounde from a wonderful five days with our Covenant colleagues.  We were in Kribi, Cameroon for Covenant Africa Area Fellowship. 

 

This is our opportunity to gather together as Covenant missionaries for times of fellowship,

 

worship,…

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Seeing CEFA

We finally made a trip to Gamboula this week.  One of the highlights was to see the CEFA project that Roy Danforth has been working on.  This is a 400 hectare plot of land that will be used for education …

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Lovely Orchids

Orchids have beautiful and fragile blossoms.  At least that is how they  look.  

 

 

 

 

However in reality they are not as fragile as them seem and they last for weeks.  We see this as we walk by the orchids which are …

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In search of Hortense

 

This entry is really another flashback prompted by walking around the UC San Diego campus and seeing the following building each day on my way home from school here in Yaounde.

 

 

 

This building (a shipping container converted to a business) …

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I AM A PLANT

This past week the RFIS Middle School students and staff learned about being plants at our retreat.  

The theme verse was  

A planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.    from  Isaiah 61:3  

   

We learned about  

ROOTS =…

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Retreat Time

This week is Retreat Time at RFIS.

This is when our students and staff spend some time together getting to know each other and God better.

  The high school students leave the RFIS campus and travel somewhere to experience God …

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Under Construction … Again!

With the completion of the basketball courts I assumed that we would not need to keep students away from construction. But I forgot that another WA team was coming to work more magic on the site.

The current project is …

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