{"id":565,"date":"2011-01-06T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=565"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:18:28","slug":"christmas-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t really call this our “first Christmas” in Cameroon, since we were here for Christmas in 2002, after evacuating from Central African Republic.\u00a0 But that’s a different story!<\/p>\n

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Cookies from the Dutch Embassy for Sinterklaas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year\u00a0season got off to an international start Dec. 3\u00a0with\u00a0celebration of the Dutch holiday\u00a0Sinterklaas.\u00a0 The Parent Run School (PRS) had a whole day of games, fun, treats and culture learning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Combined RFIS Middle and HighSchool choirs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 10 we attended the Christmas concert by RFIS Middle School and High School choirs and instrumentalists.\u00a0 While most songs were traditionally Christmas, there was an international flavor, not just among the students, but in one of the performances.\u00a0 They sang “O Sifuni Mungu,” in Swahili and English,\u00a0while a few students accompanied on local\u00a0drums and\u00a0other students danced (“worship in motion”) a routine choreographed by one of the students.\u00a0 It was incredible.<\/p>\n

December 13 we celebrated the old Swedish (we’re not, but the founders of the American Covenant Church were, and our neighbors are Swedish Americans) tradition of Lucia Day!\u00a0 Little 2 year old Ruthie came over early in the morning (supervised by her mom)\u00a0with a candle and yummy coffee cake to share.<\/p>\n

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"We Three Kings"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then Dec. 17 & 19,\u00a0just before school ended for Christmas break, Ben and\u00a0the\u00a0students from his school\u00a0performed their Christmas play.\u00a0 They did an excellent job, and of course all us parents were proud.\u00a0 Ben got to be one of the 3 wise men.<\/p>\n

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Z's Christmas tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Decorating at our house was quite simple.\u00a0 I found our artificial tree, and in the box were lights that still worked and a box of ornaments.\u00a0 That seemed to be enough.\u00a0 Shopping was pretty much done by December since\u00a0traffic gets rediculous in December; shoppers going to town and also many travellers leaving Yaounde for holiday in their home villages, or others leaving villages to spend Christmas in the big city.<\/p>\n

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December traffic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christmas Day we had dinner with dear friends,\u00a0Covenant missionaries Paul & Sheryl Noren and their son’s family Karl & Mary and the kids.\u00a0 We had a few presents for the kids, but we don’t put much emphasis on that when we have African friends who are glad just to put\u00a0out a meal for their children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At our church, International Christian Church of Yaounde, which meets Sunday mornings in a conference room of the Hilton Hotel downtown, we celebrated Advent, lighting the candles each week.\u00a0 This year I thought often of the Wise Men.\u00a0 Maybe I was influenced by Ben’s part in the school play, but my curiosity of them was satisfied in a sermon given recently at church.\u00a0 What intrigues me is that back then God\u00a0had revealed himself to those “kings” in ways that indicated clearly to them the significance of Jesus’ birth.\u00a0 And still today, God reveals himself to people of other nations in ways that communicate clearly the significance of Jesus for everyone.<\/p>\n

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