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Times of Celebration in Mbingo!
We are greatly pleased to report that the group of doctors Rick worked with before coming to Mbingo, Southwestern Medical Clinic in Michigan, has a foundation (Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation) that has c…
Continue ReadingFirst, Jerusalem . . .
Jesus’s words to His disciples in Acts 1:8 remind us that we should first be witnesses in our home turf (to the disciples, it was in Jerusalem) and then to neighboring areas (“Judea and Samaria”) and then “to the ends of the earth.” Over the last twenty years, BCCL has equipped almost a thousand church leaders to reach their “Jerusalem” or home turf; and now, reaching “Judea and Samaria and the ends of the earth” is unfolding right before our very eyes!
Continue ReadingA Send Forth Celebration
It’s hard to believe my twenty-six years in Cameroon have come to an end. This past year has been particularly challenging with the COVID restrictions, robberies at the school, and numerous schedule and staff changes. I thank God for making His powerful presence known in many ways.
Continue ReadingThe Fruits of Labour
Greetings in the strong name of Jesus Christ from Banyo, Cameroon. We are in the midst of rainy season here; it rained all last night and is overcast today. This is the season when the farmers are quite busy; next month, when they begin to harvest in earnest, they will be even busier.
Continue ReadingBetween Two Worlds
Airplanes are a modern marvel. Besides being able to soar in the air as hunks of metal, our family can board one and flip our worlds in mere hours. We take off as foreigners and land as citizens. We wake up in the southern hemisphere and go to bed in the northern hemisphere. We begin the day in the chill of winter and end it with the humid warmth of a summer’s sunset.
Continue ReadingCreated for Good Works
As the conflict in the anglophone regions of Cameroon continues into its fourth year, the emotional toll on people is becoming more evident. There is need for more well-trained counselors and social workers. Thankfully, the Cameroon Baptist Convention is helping to meet this need.
Continue ReadingReturn to Ministry Activities
COVID continues to be an issue in Latin America, as with the rest of the world, but even with restrictions in most of the countries we work in, we have some exciting things happening! Our Mexican and Argentine fields are beginning to see activity that was common before the pandemic arrived.
Continue ReadingChurch Partnerships – Kingdom Benefits
Back in 2018/2019, while we were on home assignment in Canada, Florence and some members of our home church, Mission Baptist Church of Hamilton, Ontario, started brainstorming how to help internally displaced peoples in Cameroon.
Continue ReadingOpening Up!
“Opening up,” the words we’ve been waiting to hear for a long time around the world, are finally being used more authoritatively in Romania.
Continue ReadingDigging Up the Weeds
Have you ever noticed that when you don’t work the ground it begins to grow weeds? Very rarely has a volunteer vegetable or fruit grown up without some form of cultivation. But weeds, well they are very willing to grow where no one is working.
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