Tag Archives: Cameroon
On the road again
Last week I shared about the Bible dedication that I was able to attend, but the journey there and back was just as eventful. I was driving an older bowered car that has worked just fine for us driving around … Continue reading
Akosse Bible Dedication Part IV
This is the final post on the Akosse dedication all though there are many more stories I could share from the event of all the ten different church choirs from every denomination and the processional in which one of the … Continue reading
Akosse Bible Dedication Part III
The day continued with many more speeches and then we got to the main sermon. It was preached by a local pastor on Matthew 20:1-13 on the parable of workers in the vineyard. He started off by having the text … Continue reading
Akosse Bible Dedication Part II
The first speaker of the day was the chief of the village. He shared a story from his days of a child that if you greeted a white man in English you could end up with a penny. One day … Continue reading
Akosse Bible Dedication Part I
Last weekend I was privileged to attend the dedication of the Akosse New Testament for the Bakossi people in Tombel. The drive there and back is another story, which will come soon but I wanted to share about the celebration … Continue reading
Thanksgiving
This was our 3rd Thanksgiving outside the USA. It’s not as strange celebrating it here, because we have many American colleagues who celebrate too. In France it was very strange because it was just another day in school followed by … Continue reading
Big Bread
If you read the blog a week or so ago, you read about the difficulty of making bread one day. There is a man who attends the church we attend and he gave us this huge loaf of bread, almost … Continue reading
Bread Day
Today was a day full of bread making (we don’t have a bread machine). All our bread is made by hand, the same with tortillas and every other baked good. Today I needed to make bread and thought I would … Continue reading
Block Soap
We were introduced to this soap just a few days after arriving. It’s a big block of tan colored soap with a light smell. It’s been used around our house to lather up raclette rags to mop the floor (no, … Continue reading
Boils
In Exodus I’ve read many times about the plague of boils and in Deuteronomy about painful boils that can’t be cured that spread over the whole body. I never thought to long about these, just the passing thought of yuck … Continue reading
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