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Mmmm . . . It’s Mango Season!
Mmmmm . . . I love mangoes. One obvious benefit of living in the tropics is the ready availability of tropical fruit. This is the best time of the year when mangoes are ripening.
Continue ReadingMinistry in Isolation
We pray you are having a blessed beginning to this new year of 2020. We began the new year in Canada but have since returned to Romania and things have been busy!
Continue ReadingGod’s Faithfulness
Greetings from Japan, where we are now under a State of Emergency and schools were not allowed to start a new school year in April but are hoping to start soon. As I have shared in our ‘Praise and Prayer’ email last month, Saijo Sensei has been typing up his sermons and they were being hand delivered, but since the State of Emergency the sermons are being delivered electronically or by postal mail.
Continue ReadingA season of preparation
Hello! We are the Bergman family and have recently been appointed by the NAB as missionaries in Romania. We have spent many months discerning and taking steps to get to where we are today!
Continue ReadingBardins Stay-at-Home
We write you today while under a “Stay-at-home” order in Nashville, Tennessee. We are sure that many of you are in the same situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are nearing the end of a planned four-and-a-half-month furlough.
Continue ReadingPatient Care in the Era of COVID-19
As mentioned in a previous newsletter, I’ve now relocated to Mbingo Baptist Hospital for the purpose of helping with the Internal Medicine Residency being conducted here. On March 12, responsibility for the program was formally handed to me.
Continue ReadingThe Gaudios are heading to Japan!
The Gaudios are heading to Japan!
Continue ReadingIs it Sacrifice or Obedience?
It has been a crazy school year, serving as Interim Director. And it is now getting even crazier! As of early January, it was announced that I will be the new director moving forward in a more permanent capacity. Thus, the adventure changes course once again!
Continue ReadingAm I the Only One Praying?
How do you feel when you find out that you are part of something much bigger than you alone, or even you and the group you are in? For most of us, it is very encouraging…
Continue ReadingFamily Impact from the Cameroon Crisis
For quite some time now (since November 2016), people have been praying for the end of the Cameroon crisis of marginalization of peoples from the English colonial background by a government dominated by people of the French colonial background.
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