Category Archives: Mission

Partnership meetings

Posted on February 9, 2013 by danforth

This past week almost all the missionaries here at Gamboula had meetings with representatives from the local church, the “E.E.B.” – read Evangelical Baptist Church.  It was a good but full 2.5 days of meetings.  We actually heard from each …

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Nadege, development agent extraordinaire!

Posted on January 27, 2013 by danforth

Nadege has been the pillar of our nutrition outreach program at the mission hospital, but she also takes a major part in growing crops out at the experimental farm and helps to teach village co-operatives.  I was surprised to see …

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New Fulani friends

Posted on January 27, 2013 by danforth

Thanks to our colleague, Kim Cone’s, penchant for walking and exploring, we have two new bunches of Fulani friends, not more than a 45 minute walk from us.  They are here in our vicinity for their cattle, as this is …

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Please pray for C.A.R.

Posted on December 31, 2012 by danforth

This is a map of the Central African Republic that was sent out by ICDI before Christmas.  I have added a couple of advances, circled in orange, made by the rebels since the map was sent out.  There is talk …

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Celebrating the feast of the lamb

Posted on October 30, 2012 by danforth

We celebrated Abraham’s faithfulness and God’s gift of a ram for sacrifice last Friday with Musxlim friends.  Jan Cone, Lori Shinar, and I went to various homes right here in “downtown” Gamboula:

We had some good conversations and some absolutely …

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When it rains, it pours!

Posted on October 27, 2012 by danforth

I’m NOT complaining!  Really!  We just got done with opening, checking, sorting, and shelving 203 cartons of meds and supplies, and two containers from Sweden arrived and were ready to unload.  Here are a couple of photos from our busy …

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Hooray, meds arrived!

Posted on October 27, 2012 by danforth

After months of waiting and having to purchase meds bit by bit, we received our big pharmacy order from Holland.  Never mind that it came in two different truckloads, one arriving at 7:30 PM! and the next one at 10PM!!!  …

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Visiting Sharon Davis in Bamenda

Posted on October 17, 2012 by danforth

Sharon Davis is an amazing woman, networking in all different directions to see people enabled, healthy, and hearing about the Lord.  While we visited her, if we mentioned a ministry or had a question or needed to find something in …

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Byron’s here!

Posted on October 7, 2012 by danforth

Byron Amundsen, Covenant Mission’s Director of Administration and Finance, is here at Gamboula visiting for a few days.  He is in the middle of an Africa tour, having just come from Congo and soon to continue on to Cameroon.  He’s …

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Grateful and humbled by the generosity of friends!

Posted on September 22, 2012 by danforth

Back in May, upon our arrival to Gamboula, I discovered that the central pharmacy’s computer was very sick, with a huge cancerous looking blob in the middle of the screen:

We knew a friend from our home church in Davis, …

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