Category Archives: Ministry

Beginnings and UCC invite

Posted on June 5, 2021 by danforth

In less than 2 months’ time we will be retired.  We have been so blessed over these past 43 years – yes, we left for Zaire from Davis, California in May of 1978!   University Covenant Church, UCC, in Davis nurtured …

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Keeping busy in a lovely way

Posted on May 14, 2021 by danforth

Our son, Josh, teaches AP history, and he asked Roy to be available as counsel for his students who are working on mock development projects.  They had to choose and issue and a country, and work through all the possible …

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Four New Testaments published and dedicated in DR Congo

Posted on May 6, 2021 by danforth

A quadruple New Testament Dedication happened in the city of Gemena, in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday April 25.  Those that now can read scripture in their mother tongues, those that did the …

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On Zoom

Posted on October 1, 2020 by danforth

I could keep wishing and praying for the old days when we could be in a room filled with friends and family, chatting and hugging and just being together, but I don’t think that wish and prayer is going to …

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Saying goodbye to South Africa for awhile

Posted on August 5, 2020 by danforth

What a heart wrenching time, saying goodbye to South Africa for awhile.  We thoroughly enjoyed and our last times with family and just a few friends, stretching the lockdown rules just a tad.  We drank in the beauty of God’s …

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Plantains!!!

Posted on May 27, 2020 by danforth

Cooking bananas, plantains, makemba, whatever you want to call them, we call them yummy.  Roy was given this plantain plant about a year ago; banana family plants produce quickly, nothing like the mangosteen that typically takes about 8 years to …

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H is much better

Posted on May 27, 2020 by danforth

My dear friend, H, was suffering from heart problems for the past few months.  It turns out that the medication she was taking was outdated and not helping her.  She’s now on still full strength meds and we talked and …

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Walks at the beach

Posted on May 27, 2020 by danforth

Under level 4 of South Africa lockdown, we’re allowed to take walks within 5 kilometers of home, only between 6-9 am.  We’ve recently had some lovely walks along the coast, the Indian ocean stretching out to the horizon.  I’ve been …

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Masks

Posted on May 4, 2020 by danforth

Another Fulani’s creative mask – completely useless but inventive all the same!

Lynn, after helping us make masks for everyone on the farm, went on to make many for her aged father and friends up in the Johannesburg area, as …

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Work at B2E keeps on

Posted on March 30, 2020 by danforth

 

Though I am missing being able to help out at the Genesis Care Centre and at the Masinenge shantytown, Roy is keeping busy on the farm.  We live at his workplace, so being on lockdown means little to him …

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