Mefou-Gorilla and Monkey refuge

So for our free day for the team, we took them to the Mefou refuge (It's a Jane Goodall sponsored reserve). It was really fun to see all the monkeys and gorillas and also take a small trek through the jungle. This is actually the first time we had been there ourselves, but we really enjoyed it and would go back again.



A nice picture of a baby gorilla

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Silly Monkey!!!


Kristen in front of one of the really huge trees of the rainforest.


Joel holding some beans from the coffee family that grow from long vines from trees in the rainforest.


This guy kept throwing sticks at us. He definitely wanted us to know it was his territory.


One of the gorillas


Here's a baby monkey that had been shot and almost died.

What's for Dinner?

Viper...the other white meat! Here's Janet and Kristen holding dinner. Viper and peanut sauce, it doesn't get much better than that.


So we picked-up a viper on the side of the road that had just been killed....Yummy fresh viper!



Have you ever wondered what the inside of a viper looks like....Well, here you go!



Here's the viper skin!

Team Pictures

Janet sharing with the women of the church on mother/baby health. Janet is a midwife in the States.


Bob, Mark and Joel working on putting the solar oven together. Bob and Jacquie brought a solar oven to give to an African to help them with cooking. It really works! Thanks Bob and Jacquie.


Jacquie sharing her testimony and Joel translating


Mark and Joel shoveling dirt


Pastor Simplice, the pastor of the church in Ambam, with his youngest son, Jean-Christ


Bob and Jacquie putting bolts into the frame of the tabernacle



Kelly and Kristen were working hard to move the dirt and flatten the foundation of the church



Here's the tabernacle in Ambam that the team paid for and helped build. It is such a blessing for the church of Ambam to finally have a tabernacle after 5 years.


This is a picture of the team

Some pictures at the beach in Kribi

Here's a sunset


Here is a picture from the dug out canoe in the Lobe River.


The Lobe Falls make for a nice view.


Here we are in the dug-out canoe


Joel and I with the chief of a pygmy tribe


Here's Joel playing Tarzan


We really enjoy the beach at Kribi. It is always a nice get away for us.

Some photos of our church

Here's me and Brigitte with a few of the children of the church




Here's Joel and I with some of our church members

Hello World!!!

Yes, we are still alive! I know some of you were worried that we got lost in the jungle or eaten by a hippo or something, but we have just been extremely busy. We just had a team here for several weeks. We were able to construct a tabernacle in the village of Ambam as well as hold several evagelistic meetings. Things went really well with the team and we really enjoyed their fellowship and all the ministry they were able to do here.

We are now getting back into the swing of things with our church plant. Satan has really been trying to discourage us and attack a lot of the people in our church, but we know that God has great plans to prosper this new church. We are really trying to give a good foundation and disciple the people here. The people of this province are so religious but they have no substance to their faith. Most of the people have been in churches a lot in their lifetime but have no foundation in the basic things of living a true Christian life. Most of the children don't even know the ten commandments or have even heard basic Bible stories, like Noah's Ark. But what is even crazier, is that a lot of the children have more knowledge of the Bible than the adults. A good majority of the people here go to church, but they have no idea what it means to really have a relationship with Jesus and truly live their lives for Him. We just pray that God will use us to see individuals really surrender their lives to Christ and know Him in such a real way. Anyways, we are encouraged because we know that God has greater plans than we could ever even imagine. He is so good and faithful!

Well, it is always an adventure living in Africa. We recently had the opportunity to take a dug out canoe through the jungle to meet with a small pygmy tribe. It was a beautiful trip down the river and very interesting to meet some pygmy people. Joel and I look like giants compared to them! We will try to add some pics, but our internet is very, very slow. We will try to update more often, but as I said, our internet is very difficult to work with blogging.

Thanks to everyone who keeps up with us. We love hearing from all of you and covet your prayers.