Medical Team

Well we are out in Tombel village right now with the Medical team from Jacksonville. There's 15 of them, they're such a great bunch and have been working really hard. We started the free clinic yesterday and so far we've seen over 300 people. There have been a lot of people coming so we're hoping we'll get to see them all before Friday. I've been helping out at the make-shift pharmacy and translating into Pidgin English when needed beside a million other little things. Jake has been driving back and forth to the Agriculture/livestock seminar that is going on in another village (We have a vet on the team). It is only 9 miles away but takes about an hour to get there! Jake is really enjoying all the rocky roads :). Praise God they saw 100 people give their lives to Christ today. In the evening crusades have been going on with hundreds attending. (I haven't been to any as it is too late for the boys). And of course the boys are having a great time as they just get to run around everywhere and everyone is making a big fuss of them as we're in the village. They are completely filthy all the time as they play in the dirt but oh well, at least they're happy :). I can put any pictures up of yet as we are just using our cell phone to send emails. I will post some when we get back next week. Tomorrow we'll be going at a local school to give out some pens and crayons the team brought, I'm gonna give a short word to the students. Thanks to all of you who have been praying, things have ben going great!

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The other day we were talking about the baby with the boys and Josh asked if the baby was going to be black because it was going to be born in Cameroon. I told him no and I think he was a bit disappointed :).

Besides that, had my doctors appointment last week and praise the Lord, all is going well. In my eight month now, so will soon have to start seeing the Dr. every two weeks. Before you know it, the baby is going to be here. Hoping to get another ultra sound soon so we know what it is before it arrives (and so I can stop calling the baby an it!).

God's already been blessing us in 2008. There's a Christmas tree farm in Texas who every year does a fund raiser night for missions. This year they chose us and raised over a $1000! It was a huge help. We've really been needing new tires for our truck but haven't had the money to get them. When we shipped it, it came with nice tires but they were just regular street tires, not cut out for the roads over here. The last time Jake went out to a village he managed to get a flat 4 times in one day as the roads where extremely rocky. Then another time we actually had a long slit in the tire from a rock. So needless to say this was a bit of a hassle and something we always thought about when traveling out of the city. Praise the Lord with this money, we were finally able to get brand new all terrain tires, that can just about go anywhere. Things like this are soooooo expensive over here, the Lord knew our need and provided, just in time too as we head out to Tombel village this week. One other missionary told us the three main crops in Tombel are Cocoa, Corn and rocks!

New tires!

Happy New Year!

Had a great Christmas with my parents. We had a couple of friends from church over as well as an American couple who are studying here that we met recently and are witnessing too. So with 10 around the table it was a little crowded but a lot of fun, we had lovely day. After Christmas we took my parents back to the airport :( and then went camping on the beach with some missionary friends (who have kids the same age as us) for a few days. It was such a nice relaxing time and it is always fun to sleep in a tent when you almost 8 months pregnent! We were way out of town so had no cell phone, email or any other means of communication, it was really refreshing and we all got a nice tan too :). Picture below is of Seth on the way back from the beach with our dog Strider. They both were worn out :).


Saturday the annual medical team comes in. I can't wait, we always have a lot of fun with them. This year we are going to the village of Tombel and will be doing free medical outreaches in the day and crusades in the evening. It is always a great time where we see many lives changed. Please keep it in your prayers.