Well, the car wash has been open four days and is going great! The first day was a little slow but things have certainly picked up since then, PTL! Lots of cars have been coming, people are amazed at the pressure washer, and all the boys have been working hard. Jake's been down there everyday just to keep an eye on things for the first week so he's been gone all day. But we are really excited that it's going so well.

Bread For Life has a team here in Bamenda right now, the same one that comes each January to do free medical outreaches and crusades. It's good to see some familiar faces and new ones too (a total of 30 in all!). We have 6 of them staying at our house for the week, it's nice to have some "American Fellowship" as well as enjoy some of the goodies they bought with them ie. nuts, M&Ms, Hersey's chocolate (not so good for my new year resolution's diet :).

They've had large amounts of people coming for the medical outreaches and the crusades have been packed with many people getting saved each night. I was asked to sing there two nights ago with another team member, so that was fun. I also got to teach on the importance of Children's ministy at the pastor's conference yesterday. It went incrediably well and had many invites to come speak at different churches to share with their children workers. So that's always encouraging. Also got to share with them about WON and our vision for orphans. I had at least 4 people come up telling me that they knew of orphans that needed somewhere to go. So we took their contact info and once we are up and running we will get back with them.

Working at the Car Wash!

Praise God we got the water installed today at the car wash, so all systems are go!. We'll have the grand opening next Monday... next week will be a time of training the wash boys and manager as well as promoting it. Check out the new pictures on our website's front page of how much the place has changed since they started. I've been busy painting the sign boards for the place, one for prices, and two for signs on the road and building.

Cameroon Orphanage Work Team

If you go to the home page of our website you'll see a button to click to see the brochure for the April team that will be coming here to work on the orphanage. By that time, we'll have kids at the Children's home but there will still be plenty to do. There is 12 places, I believe that 6 are already booked so if you interested you should call the number soon. It is open to everyone and we always have a lot of fun. Think, pray about it, maybe God is calling YOU to come on a missions trip :)

West African Critters...

So when we were traveling the other day I got to see something very cool that I've been wanting to see for a long time. Here, at the little road tolls there's lots of vendors selling everything from coconuts to meat on a stick. One guy had a bunch of frogs, and not just any frogs, Goliath Frogs! (the largest frog in the world). I'd heard about them before and have always wanted to see one so was really excited I finally did. Poor things were still alive hanging on a string, not knowing their fate of landing up in the stew pot (or maybe they did). I didn't manage to get a picture of them, the one below is from the web, the ones I saw weren't quite this big...

... maybe about two thirds of this. If you google them you can see even bigger ones this! Kinda freaky!

BTW, one of our favourite car games for long distances is where each of us choose an animal that we think we will see for sale the most on the side of the road. Bush Rat is usually the winner with monkey or Diki deer coming in at a close second. Snakes, crocodiles, huge lizards, and pangolins are not uncommon either.

Happy New Year!

Jude ate a LOT of sand!

What it's all about, relaxing!

Jude taking his nightly bath :)

Waterfall we stopped at on the way home

Happy New Year, or Happy, Happy! as they say in Pidgin here. Had a great time at the beach. There was about 10 missionary families there, out in the middle of nowhere. We shared a site with our great friends the Youngs (he is a pilot for Wycliff out here). They have kids our boy's age. And of course we took our dog Strider too so it was a pretty packed car for the seven hour plus drive down there... but well worth it.

I got to go snorkeling for the first time, Jake went last year but since I was pregnant I didn't want to risk bashing into any rocks. It was soooooo amazing, saw hundreds of amazing fish. About a hundred meters out into the ocean, there's sort of like a rock wall that all the fish hide behind, fish of all shapes and sizes, they're very tropical looking. I even saw a eel (not to big) peaking it's head out at me from a hole... which I quickly swam over. It was just like another world under there, God's creation is so marvelous. It was such a blast and can't wait to do it again next year. Also our friend caught a huge barracuda that we had for supper one night, scrumptious! The boys had fun swimming, building sandcastle and playing battleships of all things (their now favorite game).

For new's year night a bunch of us got together and played Scum till midnite. Then we lit a big fire... and went to bed :)

We got back on Friday and have busy ever since. The car wash should be open in the next week or two. We've paid for the water meter to be put in but they haven't done it yet... I think they're waiting for a "gift" which we won't give of course. Just pray that it all gets sorted out as it won't be much of a car wash with our water!