Category Archives: Mission

Please keep praying for CAR!

Posted on July 28, 2013 by danforth
We just received the news below – gives you an inside overview from a resident.  Sobering, causing one to fall on one’s knees to plead for mercy for the trampled grass under the fighting bull elephants’ feet!!!
ASSIST News Service
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Ramadan starts July 9th

Posted on July 3, 2013 by danforth

Here are some  of our Fulani friends, and in just a few days they will start their month-long daytime fast period, Ramadan, or Suumaye in the local language here.  Please pray for dreams and visions for these dear ones, that …

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Out on a field trip today

Posted on June 21, 2013 by danforth

We took a hike to explore a path to cross the river into Cameroon this morning.  Crazy me, I forgot to bring a hat or an umbrella to shade my head.  Goodness, try walking about 3 hours in the tropic …

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Praying for the country

Posted on May 27, 2013 by danforth

Many people gathered in front of the elementary school downtown, next to the mayor’s office, on Sunday afternoon, to pray for peace, to pray for forgiveness, to pray for mercy.   The speaker talked about 2 Chronicles 7:14 and we prayed …

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Back home to Gamboula

Posted on May 27, 2013 by danforth

We traveled from Yaounde to Gamboula on Friday the 24th, making a full 2 months’ away.  We stopped at the Catholic mission in K’zou, and were fed and taken care of by the gracious sisters there.

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We ended up waiting …

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Stories from across the border #5 Kim and lawkeepers

Posted on May 15, 2013 by danforth

This is an encouraging story from Kim Cone, missionary colleague, from his visit to G’la with Roy and the others just last week.  Our visiting group of 5 had had nothing but good visits and interactions with the Sele-ka in …

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Stories from across the border #4 women of faith

Posted on May 15, 2013 by danforth

You may recall my writing of a women’s bible study that carols on Easter mornings.  I joined them one year and was blessed to tears.  This year on Palm Sunday, March 24th, a splinter group from the Sel-eka regime had …

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Stories from across the border 3 the good and the bad

Posted on May 14, 2013 by danforth

We heard the real story about March 24th, and the aspects are mixed, good & bad.  We left a little after 2 pm that afternoon, and a renegade group, originally but no longer affiliated with the Sele-ka, came onto the …

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Stories from across the border 2

Posted on May 14, 2013 by danforth

When Roy & Luke & Leanne & Kim & Rose-Marie arrived to the small town on the Cameroon side of the river, they were welcomed to a lovely guesthouse at a Catholic mission there.  Five leaders from Gamboula came across …

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Stories from across the border

Posted on May 14, 2013 by danforth

Benoit YMeet Benoit Y., friend and helper.  This is one of the men who helped us to leave the mission in a timely manner on March 24th.  If not for his surveillance of the situation, we may have driven with our …

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