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Painting Toenails is a Great Part Of Mission Work
Jim and Roxanne hope to serve in Ukraine the second week of October
Grace Bible Church will send a mission team to the Dominican Republic in January 2022
Below are some photos of previous Construction/Medical missions to the DR
We may be in Wisconsin but our hearts are still in love with Togo and it’s people. Please pray for the mission there: Hôpital Baptiste Biblique (HBB)
Due to the limitations on travel they have had fewer short-term missionaries and this has put a strain on the full-time missionaries.
Our God is good and will provide just the right help at just the right time!
Mama with premie daughter
Bath day at the cuisines
This little guy was picking flowers for his mother
My translator, Fofo, with his daughter. His wife died several years ago. He is great at sharing the Gospel with our patients.
One of the full time missionary families had some additions while we were here
John and Betty brought an ice cream machine over in a container a few years ago
So we had an Ice Cream Social on Saturday.
What could be better than ice cream and a good book in the shade on a Togo afternoon? This is a girl after my own heart!!
Some of the little ones thought it was the perfect opportunity to play in the mud…till their dad came to wash them off.
And boys will be boys anywhere
At the end of the dry season the hot winds from the Sahara (the Harmatan) sweep down to the Plateau here and bring so much sand we can hardly see the mountains
And almost blots out the sun
COVID vaccination clinic at HBB
Ladies preparing a special lunch for after the Easter service at the Goudevé church
This Sunday School student is thrilled with her memory verse paper
I love this picture from church Sunday in the Goudevé village. We were trying to get a picture with the pastor and one of the other leaders in the church and the whole congregation ran up behind us to get in the picture! Can’t leave them out….THEY are THE CHURCH!
Outside of the Kola Nut
Inside of a Kola Nut which is used in Coke/Pepsi. It is indigenous to West Africa. One seed had as much caffeine as 2 large cups of coffee!
Florence, the chief cook for the Guesthouse, on her way into work.
Gospel presentation by one of the hospital chaplains.
Morning meds for the female inpatient ward
For the more sensitive types, don’t scroll down any further!!
Seriously the photos below are very graphic
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One of the MKs (Missionary Kids) wanted to show me what her daddy found in the front seat of their van.
Patient I’m following for wound care and dressing changes at the outpatient clinic
It’s the end of the hot dry season and beginning of the rainy season in Togo.
And termites like to party after a good rain.
The air is thick with them but they lose their wings fairly quickly then they crawl off and do whatever termites do.
According to the locals, termites are good when roasted in a pan over an open fire.
In the morning you can pick up handfuls of wings.
They aren’t very filling though and stick to the roof of your mouth ;-\
With a machete
A storm swept through Tsiko, the village where we are located, and the HBB compound yesterday with wind pushing the rain horizontally. Branches went down and the Tusenk’s cashew tree was twisted out of the ground.
Clean up proceeded in typical Togo fashion, everything done by hand. Fortunately no buildings on the compound were damaged.
However in the Tsiko community several homes lost their roofs and some their walls. Please pray that repairs can be made swiftly so these families have a dry place to live.
We had rain Monday evening, yay!!
And our roommate appeared:
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