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Celebrating birthdays, celebrating family
Sawyer’s 12th birthday, with his traditional donut cake! His party was a guys only camping overnight with buddies, complete with lots of hotdogs, a potato gun/rocket, and another birthday cake, this time a regular chocolate cake.
I had a huge!!! …
Road block, does this look familiar?
On the way home from Yaounde on Saturday, we were squished into the car a bit like sardines though not too bad, but opportunity had come for me to hitch a ride to and from Yaounde with a 3-day layover, …
Poodle corn
Please pray for South Sudan, TODAY and tomorrow and the next day and the next day…
December busy-ness
Here are a few snippets into our December life. The joy of having our whole family together is overwhelming at times. We are blessed.
Maddie lighting the first candle for advent
Sam, Anna, Elaina, and Sawyer are …
Please pray that our colonel can stay with us!
Please pray that our benevolent colonel, who has kept the peace in our town and mission so well since March, will not be transferred to another city this week. His replacement arrived a couple of days ago, and there have …
Hammadou
He was a giggly chubby little guy last time I saw him, but his mum and he had left for a village some distance away. He’s back, with an illness that is giving him spazzy weak legs, aside from the …
Read these if you want a great overview of our experience
Here are links to a couple of reports sent out by Reach Global, one of the missions that we partner with in CAR.
http://reachglobalnews.org/missionaries-narrowly-escape-after-central-african-coup/
http://reachglobalnews.org/hopeful-signs-in-central-african-republic/
May prayer requests
Dear Family and Friends,
Again we come to you with one basic request for prayer this month, but it has many facets:
Please pray for peace and order in the Central African Republic.
We still are hearing from our African …
Peace, at least temporarily, thank you for praying!
There is currently a cease fire and there have been peace talks in neighboring country, so there is relative peace right now in our country of residence. We have heard that there have been changes in the government which are …