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I have been here before!!

This is where Carolyn lived during her first year of college more than 30 years ago.  Now Keith is in the next door high-rise dorm.  The place is not that different but now they squeeze …

One day not long ago I was standing on the veranda at the front of the school.  I happened to look down and I saw what looked to be a pretty white flower on the banana plant.  That seemed really …

Our school break began like this:

This is what the veranda of the school looked like on Friday December 17th

Twenty four hours later this is what we saw

We had an unexpectedly long stopover in Brussels due to weather …

This is a year of firsts at RFIS.  Friday night was the first Choir concert at the new school facility.

Thursday the parking lot got lines and lights to be ready for the night time event.  Thanks Ron and …

The Church is not a building …. but having one sure helps!

I showed you the current state of the Grace Baptist church building last week.  It is not yet finished, but at each stage it has been used well. …

In Cameroon, Thanksgiving is not a national holiday; it is not the ‘start’ of the shopping extravaganza that marks the retail Christmas season;  it is a season in the church year.  Multiple Sundays during the months of October and November …

One of the things I love about teaching Science in this part of the world is the opportunity to observe the marvelous creatures in the world around us.  Just this morning my students collected a slime mold of a tree …

When the wind blows… so starts the nursery rhyme but at RFIS it is not the cradle that falls but the wall.

As we move from rainy season to dry season during this month we can have some terrific storms.  …

Welcome to the blog of Jeff and Carolyn Stoker.  Try something new!  I regularly tell my students to do this and in this spirit we are trying something new too – a blog. Thus you have Stoker Stories: Reflections from …