Category Archives: Prayer requests
More joy!
Oh, how delightful it is to share, to bless, to give, and to encourage. Yesterday we were able to help, in a small way, about 35 families who had to flee their homes earlier this year. Their villages were …
The joy of giving!
What a busy, unorganized, wonderful, heartwarming, mind boggling time we had this past week, sharing our abundance (special thanks to Encompass & CWR) with our friends just across the river who are suffering. Even though the gift of cassava, peanuts, …
Harvest time at the CEFA farm
Corn, beans, and peanuts were planted a couple of months ago. Now the harvest is plenty, and there’s hope for sharing the seed with needy farmers. Farmers who possible were displaced and now are able to go back home to …
Hot off the press! Google Earth just updated!
This is where we live! This photo had to have been taken in the last month or so. If you want to go to Google Earth and get a closer view, just enter these coordinates:
4º06’20.73”N 15 º11’33.66”E
Here is …
About the Fulani, an good overview by Angsthelm
I shared this article on Facebook, in French, and I think it gives a fair overview. The picture is also from Angsthelm. Please keep praying for the Fulani!
A free opinion of Bruno Angsthelm, Chargé de mission Africa at …
One last farewell and the mission is feeling empty
Tim & Ann Wester, long time missionaries,I mean, really really long time missionaries, both having grown up in DRCongo, have finished up their term here. They are heading for the states now, for a year of home assignment, catching up …
A new group of young professionals “graduated”
These young people just went through a grueling week of oral and practical exams, supervised by a team from the university in Bangui and our nursing school staff. They made it, all but one, and now await the temporary diploma …
Ramadan is over
Nadege, our amazing CEFA ag/nutrition lady, and I just had nice visits with a few Fulani friends in the town across the river. Ramadan just ended, and we missed the big celebration day, but nonetheless my buddies treated us to …
Yippee! Internet for the next year!
We are thankful and excited; we will have satellite internet for the coming year. It is still not particularly fast, but it is a whole lot better than our other option, which is an almost non-existent dial-up system through …
So long to our buddies, the Turks
Our good friends, the Turks, are now officially moved back to Yaounde for this next year. It ended up that they were needed to fill the position of dorm parents for the school year 2014-2015. We will sorely miss them …