Category Archives: Transportation

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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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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Do you need to call roadside service?

Posted on October 19, 2012 by danforth

Believe it or not, this is a road, not a river!  Our ag director, Benoit, was on a trip to a village just north of us, and came to a section of road where he had to rely on guys …

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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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Thank the Lord for protection!

Posted on September 12, 2012 by danforth

The CEFA (ag project’s) truck almost went into the drink two weeks ago!  You can’t really see, but there is about a six foot drop into a stream underneath the log bridge that the truck is stuck on.  Thankfully it …

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Okay, who brought the cold weather?

Posted on March 22, 2012 by danforth

We had to travel from Seattle to Spokane last week, and when Keith G. loaned us his car and his wife Florence started talking about chains, we NEVER dreamed we’d actually have to use them!  After all, the crocuses were …

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February praises and prayer requests!!

Posted on February 15, 2012 by danforth

We have had an awesome month with our supporters and our family and all of our travels up and down the state of California have been uneventful.  We have been loaned cars for the whole month and are so blessed …

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Over the bridge

Posted on August 12, 2011 by danforth


From mission connections full time over time input to the U.P. (Upper Michigan). To get there, you have to cross the Mackinac bridge, and boy I was not exactly looking forward to it. The last time we crossed, we had …

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On our way!!

Posted on May 16, 2011 by danforth


We happened to be flying to Yaounde along with another mission plane, so we took pictures in mid-air! The pilot was also kind enought to fly over the newly developed CEFA land so Roy could get some aerial shots!

We …

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An amazing time with new friends

Posted on March 3, 2011 by danforth


Roy, Kim, Benoit, and Bernard went by motorcycle to visit a Fulani village, Bixxx, quite a ways beyond Bernard’s home village, Goxxxx, which is one of the target villages for the CEFA ag development program. They had a great time …

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