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Exciting Progress in Paraguay
An example here is from Paraguay, where exciting things are beginning to happen regularly, like seven new believers being baptized and eleven new people being accepted into membership at Iglesia Florida in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, last month.
Continue ReadingOn the Road Again
We arrived in the USA from Cameroon on January 14 and will be here until mid-June. Nashville First Baptist Church has made their mission house available to us, and we are very grateful!! We have enjoyed some time in Tennessee with our son and his family (including four grandsons) on the weekends.
Continue ReadingA New Year
We can’t believe that it is already February 2022! Despite being away from close friends, family, and the familiar, which made for some hard moments, we had a really nice Christmas holiday. We visited new villages, attended church services, spent time with neighbors, and acquired some new traditions. It was a special season, as it was our first Christmas in Romania.
Continue ReadingGod Has Not Failed Me Yet
One of the best declarations of faith is unexpectedly found in the book of Lamentations. Jeremiah, the prophet, has suffered greatly but still discovers that God’s mercy never ends and that each day holds new surprises. This, too, has been true in my life these past months.
Continue ReadingFaithfully Waiting
Happy New Year! When you wish someone Happy New Year in Japan on or after January 1, there is a set phrase: “Happy New Year, and please be kind to me during this New Year.”
Continue ReadingIn all Things, God
Romans 8 is quite an encouraging passage of Scripture. It starts off reminding us of the work of Christ, then it goes on to exhort believers to live by the Spirit. Then it assures us that “our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us” and ends on a high note saying that we are “more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” Indeed, we are!
Continue ReadingResources, Stories, and Pictures
I will post some really good resources to help our understanding of these matters as they are happening today. Feel free to click the links to helpful articles. Read, consider, and then pray, especially for the believers on both sides of the conflict.
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Praise God – to Be Able to Train Again
The Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) has well over 150 departments/ministries, including administrative departments, rest houses, indigenous national missionary units, two seminary locations, nursery, primary and secondary schools, hospitals, health centers and specialized health service projects…
Continue ReadingGod Is Faithful
We often tell our kids that the greatest indicator for God’s faithfulness in the future is his faithfulness in the past. This is a message us grownups need to hear often, too, and in the last couple of months we have seen God’s repeated faithfulness to our family.
Continue ReadingBecause of Partnerships
How many of you enjoy writing and submitting reports? If we were to take a survey, our guess is that the majority response would not be very enthusiastic. The months of December and January are busy reporting months in our partnership with the Cameroon Baptist Convention.
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