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Category Archives: Mission
Portage Lake Covenant Bible Camp
What better way to be the guest missionary at a weekend camp for 2nd-3rd graders than to share the time with one’s 3rd grade granddaughter! Maddie came along with me to Portage Lake, her first church related camp experience. …
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An important stop along the road to Yaounde
We were on our way to the capital, and had expected to visit friends in a little town near one of the big refugee camps. These friends had fled CAR last year, and have kept together through many …
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Leaving them on the edge of their seats!
Roy and I have been watching a couple of different TV series, given to us by dear friends in the name of member care. I’m not sure that I’m made for being patient waiting for the next show, especially …
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A truck and ocean freight containers arrived!
Right before we left Gamboula, the Scania truck (complete with crane which you can’t see in this photo) and 2 shipping containers (one specially cut to exactly take up all the space available on the truck’s bed when it was …
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Encouragement for displaced villagers
There are thousands of displaced villagers in C.A.R, people who fled from their homes and fields to seek safety. Many of their homes were looted and some were burned. Some have been able to return home and have begun …
Let’s rebuild our village!
Roy, sharing from his heart, about what it means to follow Jesus, to live that out day to day. He really wants to see this group of people understand that rebuilding the village is good, but doing it because …
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Internet’s off, internet’s on, internet’s off…
It’s been a crazy month. We got the internet going for the whole station in January with new parts, then after a February big bad windy rainstorm complete with hail, the hospital lost their connection. It took me (Aleta), the …
People wanting to make things better
There’s a group that Roy just joined that is interested in making the town of Gamboula a better place to live. They met yesterday and spoke of reading lessons and weekly volunteer clean-up crews just to name a couple, and …
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There is hope for reconciliation in CAR! Please keep praying!
While there are maps being circulated showing the proposed division of the country of Central African Republic into 2 separate entities, the president of C.A.R. has sent out her cabinet ministers with UN reps to start up reconciliation initiatives in …
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Pastor Bertelot Bedagba is back at Gamboula
When we first arrived at Gamboula back in 1998, yes!, about 17 years ago now, Past. B was our next door neighbor and he was the mission hospital’s chaplain. He went on to pastor churches in a couple of …
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