Posts under ‘World Mission events-trips’

As of last Saturday the 11th, Tim’s birthday, we have new neighbors. Colleagues Tim and Helen Smith moved the long distance, 100 meters, from the guest house to their new house which is about 80 feet from ours. Pray for …

On Sunday, Aug 22, Rev. Mossai Sanguma was elected as General Secretary in charge of medical work for the ECC (Eglise du Christ au Congo, aka National Protestant Church of Congo). He presently serves as the President of the Congo …

August 14 was a great day of celebration–the first graduation of students from Ubangi Protestant University, UPU! There were 1,220 people in attendance for the 2-1/2 hour service in town as this 2-year old university conferred Masters in Theology degrees …

Last weekend we traveled to Bangui, CAR on Friday to attend the ordination of Pastor, now Reverend, Jean Bete on Sunday August 8. Bangui is 260 km (150 miles) from Gemena. We accepted the invitation to come along because we …

Tim & Helen Smith arrived last Friday to join our missionary team in Congo.   The Smiths spent 3 weeks in Equatorial Guinea during which they visited their friends and the churches they worked in over the past 10 years.  They …

We arrived safely back in Gemena this evening.  3 hours from Gbado-Lite to Loko yesterday and then 13 from Loko to Gemena which included +2 hours in Karawa to repair 2 flat tires.  More stories to come.  We’re pretty tired.…

These shots were filmed from the JAARS (Wycliffe) plane as we left Bangui and flew to Gemena.  The sand bar in the Ubangi river just S of Bangui was fascinating.  Then we flew over the Bau station.  You can see …

The week before going to Sudan Cindy and I attended a 5 day Training of Trainers for Community Health Evangelism.  We learned some excellent principles which we were able to incorporate into our presentations in Sudan.  

We used the River …

Friday and Saturday were filled with visits and meetings.  We visited the new houses being constructed for the church leaders.  It was encouraging to see them almost completed.  We also drove out to the outskirts of town to see where …

The reception in Malakal was overwhelming.  We arrived just before noon and there was a small choir welcoming us just outside the airport grounds , another along the road half-way to church and finally a choir and parade the last …