I’ve written about Mama Pauline before — the amazing small woman with faith in a Big God. This Christmas we at the International Church in Yaounde all went in together to assemble gift backpacks for the street boys who live …
Monthly Cooking Club
Don’t we love to swap recipes? Isn’t it fun to learn to make a new dish? Once a month we have that opportunity here. For a small fee, anyone interested may join the Monthly Cooking Club and either share / …
Run-a-thon
The Running Club is adding more kilometers to their weekly running schedule as they prepare their legs, hearts and lungs for the January goal of climbing Mt. Cameroon.
With pledges in writing, students ran either 15 km or 21 km …
Thanksgiving Weekend in 3 Parts
Thanksgiving weekend was packed with fun — While Cameroonians do have a way of giving thanks particularly at harvest time, they do not, of course, celebrate on the same day or in the same way we Americans do. At RFIS, …
1920s Style Dinner Event
The 11th Grade Class hosted a 1920s style dinner event
And the evening ended with Charleston lessons for everyone
Special Visitors
Last week we had a couple of very special visitors: Josef Rasheed, Regional Coordinator for Africa and Al Tizon, Executive Minister of Serve Globally (formerly Covenant World Mission).
Due to schedules Josef was able to spend several days with us …
International Week 2016
One of the traditions at RFIS is International Week, organized by the Student Council. It’s a week to celebrate the passport countries, birth countries or otherwise countries our students identify with.
Then each day of the week we focus on …
Drama Class Play
Usually the big drama production happens 2nd semester. But this year, Drama class was offered 1st semester. And 5 students decided to take it; our Ben was among them.
They actually did 2 plays. Parents Just Don’t Understand was …
A Bird in the Hand…
That’s the expression: “A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.” Well living in the rain forest … or what’s left of it as the homes for forest creatures are gradually replaced by homes for humans… we …
Big Wind
There was a big wind that blew through here. No, I’m not talking about political candidates.
As rainy season comes to a close (usually in the month of November) we never know when we’ll have that last blast of …