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Dear Teammates, So, you may be wondering, how did it go? All in all, we’re pleased with the trip. It was by far the most challenging trip of this type we’ve done so far, but it was also on a much larger scale than we’d ever been part of before. This was the first time…

There were more than twice as many participants as we expected, and they gave us a warm and enthusiastic welcome. Many had traveled for two long days from their villages, and two young men in particular listened to Ginny’s presentations with pens in hand, taking notes the whole time. There were good discussions on the…

I’ve had Jesus’s parable of the wheat and the weeds on the mind today. As you know, the point of the parable is that the church will be made up of both false Christians and true Christians, and it won’t be clear who truly belongs and who doesn’t until the very end. When wheat and…

The highlight of the day was Ginny’s ten-minute devotional on women, which turned into an hour and a half of discussion of marriage, how men should treat wives, how wives should act, and more. The participants broke into groups and composed songs on the subject, and if their explanations of their songs were anywhere close…

“Baja Komba?” ([What or who is] the way to God[?])“Yesua!” (Jesus!) Some events are characterized by words and phrases that seem to keep reappearing. At what a local man has unofficially tagged the sikolo na be na Baka (the school of Baka song), the exchange above is used to get people’s attention or call them…

Four pretty much uneventful hours on the road and we’re here in the village of Ndjibot, east of Abong Mbang (just past Ntimbé on P6, if you’re scoring at home), east of Yaounde. We have been warmly received. The women who have volunteered to help this week cooked us a dinner of rice and local…

Greetings from Yaounde, and thank you for your prayers! Our flights went off pretty much without a hitch. We were able to walk away from the planes, and the planes could be used again, so they were good flights. We’re still trying to catch up on sleep, but we are thankful that God has granted…

This has been the fullest week we’ve been through in a long time. It began when I (Henry) turned 70 on Sunday, then my father passed away on Wednesday, and it will end tomorrow night as we wing our way over the Atlantic on the way to Brussels and then on to Yaounde. We think…

This summer is not the right time to go to Nepal. I just don’t have enough time to plan properly. I’m trying to make arrangements to go in September. We shall see.

We were pleasantly surprised to go to the site of the Cameroon Association for Bible Translation and Literacy, which has been a long-time friend of Bible translation and other vernacular forms of discipleship, and see testimonials of the WhatsApp workshop Ginny conducted last year: https://cabtal.org/testimonials/. We will be working with CABTAL again this year, so…