Steve writing- Greetings from Lassin Cameroon! It's the last hours of March and the loose ends of the project are steadily being wrapped up.
School: the walls of all 4 classrooms stand ready for next school year.
Classroom two needs additional rafters added and the old ones removed and replaced. The floors of rooms 2, 3, and 4 must be graded, watered, and beaten smooth and hard. Doors and shutters must be built and fitted.
Light, heat and air are each provided by the sun and are thus free.
School well: Gregory has hit water at about 13 meters deep. Now, before rainy season hits, he is constructing a building over the well. This 3m x 6m building has two rooms, each square, one room to shelter the well and the other to provide tool storage. The well room will soon have a reinforced concrete floor. The storage room floor will remain earth. This project has been a good education for me as I am learning just what is required to build and fund a structure.
Church: we have had 8 weeks of disciple training so far. Each sermon has consisted of a bible study from a 20 lesson set. Members have then shared the fresh lesson with friends and family on Sabbath afternoons. Reports of lessons given are given with smiles and a sense of satisfaction. Sabbath evening 'vespers' begin at 5PM (promptly) and consists of playing 3 chapters from Desire of Ages from an MP3 player through rechargeable battery powered speakers. Attendees are given the book 'Born to Die' (Early chapters of Desire of Ages- about the life of Jesus). We all read along quietly as we listen to the book being read. I have wondered how much we absorb this way.
Well, first of all, a book that is read at all is better than a book that sits. Here's a comment that 'D' (Devine) made after listening to the chapter on Jesus' baptism, 'Now I understand why Jesus was baptized even though he had not sinned. He was showing us what we should do.' ('D' is very interested in baptism.)
Bibles: Charles from Douala, our local GMI volunteer and good friend, brought us 4 cases of Bibles and 2 cases of bible studies. We have really needed these- requests have come that we could not fill for about 2 months.
Weather: we thought that rainy season came on March 15 right on schedule.
We had a huge shower including hail that dented the 'zinc' roof of the school, turned banana leaves to a banner of ribbons, cut holes through the peels of growing banana, and washed our car pretty clean. However, no rain since then. What we have had has been called 'snow' by the locals. It began Friday night, March 19. The 'harmiton' appears to have drifted down from Chad and covered all of Cameroon with an ultra fine sandy dust that left our visibility at about 300 - 500 feet. It gradually dissipated until a week later we could see the outlines of the hills that surround our village a quarter to half mile away. The sandy dust continues, but we could see stars last night for the first time and the hills appear green instead of grayish white. This event shut down all but large commercial aviation for about 4 days. On 3/25/10, Gary Roberts texted me from Bere Chad, "Haze is from here. 100ft viz sand storms." I guess we don't have it so bad.
Locals say that it has been over 5 years since they have seen dust this thick.
Water: fresh water runs in the city pipes between 5 and 6 AM and at a few distant faucets through the day. We always have what we require, but it sure helps to have a few 5 gallon jugs in reserve.
Housing: We live next door to the 'Chief' of the Baptist Health Center of Lassin. He rents the house from a fellow who grew up here, but lives in a distant city. The landlord decided to add four apartments on to the house recently. This has caused quite a bit of strain on Aaron and his family, but has provided an incredible opportunity for us. I am in the process of renting two of the four apartments from this landlord in anticipation of the arrival of volunteers for next year. Each apartment has two rooms, a bedroom and 'parlor'. Each has its own private outhouse and shower with locking door. Being next door, these rooms will provide both the socialization and privacy required for the new team. How I wish I knew exactly how many rooms will be required; I could easily rent all four apartments and hold them until next September. Any council? Use Iridium SMS described on the blog home page.
Adventist Medical Automotive: On March 29, Carol saw a woman working her farm near the school. The woman said that it was her first day back at work; planting in preparation for the rainy season. She expressed her gratitude for our part in assisting with her recovery. This was the gal with the 3 liters of fluid in her lungs that we drove to the Kumbo Baptist Hospital. Now she's up and at 'em and very thankful to be alive.
Recently a gift was given us that we planned on using to complete the purchase of lumber for the school desks and construction of the well house.
However two cases presented themselves. One, a pregnant gal with RH negative blood needed an injection. Her home had recently burned by a fire used to clear cattle land and her husband has a chronic illness that significantly reduces his ability to provide for these two huge events.
(Note- taking responsibility for the damage caused by fire is not a strong point of the neighbor). We decided to assist them by paying for the Rhogam injection, $150. While still clinging tightly to the remainder of the donation, I helped give a bible study at the home of a member's mother.
While sitting in a living room lit only by a kerosene lamp and crowded by children and a few women, I met the member's sister and learned that she had painful bilateral ovarian tumors. She told me that the total cost of operation and recovery would be $300. How could I tell her that her life was worth less than the desks and well house? I gave the funds to the health center in her name before I could reconsider. Before I could ask God where the replacement funds were coming from, I got news from my dad, the replacements had already come.
With all the evidence that God is very much alive and well and supporting us and our family here in Lassin, I have had some pretty significant need for a perspective adjustment. I needed a class in 'What it Takes to be a Missionary'. I found it. In '09, I had downloaded MP3 files of a man reading the book 'Christian Service'. While walking to and from the school and while using a shovel to grade the earth around classrooms 3 and 4, I listened to the book in 3 days. It was the answer to my questions and many others. Am I recommending that you do the same? ABSOLUTELY!! There is no way that we can get all the training we require for God's service from the church service each week. This little book is so well balanced and encouraging. Lessons are objective and can be put directly into use. Do you feel like you could use some direction in your spiritual life? Try this in conjunction with your Bible study.
Carol and I are each well, fat and strong (virtues highly desirable here).
I weighed 68kg the other day; I am so happy. Also, no jiggers on either of our feet since the use of Permethrin on our shoes 5 weeks ago; what a relief.
Love, Steve & Carol
P.S. Naphtali told us that he had listened to Adventist World Radio for 20 years and loved it. However, there was no Adventist church to attend. Now he has one. He attends every week. He rotates in teaching the morning lesson about every 3 weeks. Some plant, God waters, others reap.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Needed in Lassin
Sabbath School lesson quarterlies- it is nearly impossible for us to get them here. We are literally a bottomless pit for the still valuable out-dated SS quarterlies. We pass out literature and books here in Lassin.
As we drive along the road to Kumbo, we pass out literature to the 'highway check point' officers, truck drivers, and carrot venders. All together, we have used up our case of 1000 Glow, our case of 100 'Steps to Jesus', 144 of Eva's Bibles, 30 of 100 'Born to Die' books (shortened Desire of Ages), and 100 bible study sets. People still come and ask us for more. "Sorry, the bibles are finish."
So., the point. Could each church that reads this consider sending us one USPS International Flat Rate box? It will cost you about $55 or less. Pack it with used SS quarterlies. Ask folks to bring old copies from home. Sets of 10 identical lessons would be great, but singles are fine too. Try to fill to the weight limit, but use strong packing tape for the corners and edges; these areas typically take a beating. Please address it to our pastor Josia in Kumbo. If it arrives during our summer break, he can distribute them as necessary to his churches in Kumbo, Din, and Lassin.
Aside: he was ordained in '09, is in his early 30's, is married, has a 5 year old daughter and one year old son; sweet people!
Mail to:
Pastor Josia NDombo
c/o Christopher Laikembu
Campost-Kumbo-NSO
NW Region- Cameroon
Kumbo Cameroon
This could become an adult or children's Sabbath school mission project that you do at the end of every quarter.
Children's Sabbath school lessons would be great too. Students here learn to read in English. Lessons could be distributed in the market to school children. (Please, no 'Insight'- It's aimed at the US.) You see, we can only get quarterlies from Nigeria. We have no reliable way to get them. The cost of each lesson is 2,500 FCFA or $5.29. But in this economy, according to my 'it feels like' scale, the cost is $25 each. Put in perspective, a child pays 3,000 FCFA for tuition to attend 1st grade at the government school for a year.
By the way, don't worry if a book looks 'used' or is written in. Nobody will mind a bit.
I don't want to sound like I'm begging, but some of you have asked if you can help.
Thank you!
Steve & Carol
As we drive along the road to Kumbo, we pass out literature to the 'highway check point' officers, truck drivers, and carrot venders. All together, we have used up our case of 1000 Glow, our case of 100 'Steps to Jesus', 144 of Eva's Bibles, 30 of 100 'Born to Die' books (shortened Desire of Ages), and 100 bible study sets. People still come and ask us for more. "Sorry, the bibles are finish."
So., the point. Could each church that reads this consider sending us one USPS International Flat Rate box? It will cost you about $55 or less. Pack it with used SS quarterlies. Ask folks to bring old copies from home. Sets of 10 identical lessons would be great, but singles are fine too. Try to fill to the weight limit, but use strong packing tape for the corners and edges; these areas typically take a beating. Please address it to our pastor Josia in Kumbo. If it arrives during our summer break, he can distribute them as necessary to his churches in Kumbo, Din, and Lassin.
Aside: he was ordained in '09, is in his early 30's, is married, has a 5 year old daughter and one year old son; sweet people!
Mail to:
Pastor Josia NDombo
c/o Christopher Laikembu
Campost-Kumbo-NSO
NW Region- Cameroon
Kumbo Cameroon
This could become an adult or children's Sabbath school mission project that you do at the end of every quarter.
Children's Sabbath school lessons would be great too. Students here learn to read in English. Lessons could be distributed in the market to school children. (Please, no 'Insight'- It's aimed at the US.) You see, we can only get quarterlies from Nigeria. We have no reliable way to get them. The cost of each lesson is 2,500 FCFA or $5.29. But in this economy, according to my 'it feels like' scale, the cost is $25 each. Put in perspective, a child pays 3,000 FCFA for tuition to attend 1st grade at the government school for a year.
By the way, don't worry if a book looks 'used' or is written in. Nobody will mind a bit.
I don't want to sound like I'm begging, but some of you have asked if you can help.
Thank you!
Steve & Carol
Friday, March 12, 2010
March 10, ‘10
Dear family & friends,
It’s March now and already over a third of it has passed. It’s less than two months before Carol and I leave our home in Lassin for our home in the good ‘ol USA. Honestly, the struggle of the week is to remain focused on the work at hand. Carol has her teaching, but I seem to have become stuck waiting between projects. The lumber to build the desks, etc. has not been delivered to Lassin yet. The school building is completed, but the well project threatens to take over our wallet. It seems somehow larger than our limited time; although probably not. Bible studies continue very well with a few friends: Devine (“D” of D’s 5 & dime, card house and pub across the street from us- Sunday @ 1, plus a couple times a week), Emanuel (nurse at the Baptist Health Center of Lassin- when work permits), Shey John (owner of the finest general store in Lassin and ‘Shey’ (ambassador and advisor)to the Fon (top man of the village)- Wed. mornings), Franklin (our carpenter & his family and a few neighbors- Thursday night), and Moses (the school tailor and his whole family- Sunday night).
Have some of you been praying for Shey John? Likely. Here’s what happened today. Our New Beginnings bible study was entitled ‘Fooled by a Myth’, the last lesson about the Sabbath. Let me interject some of the events of the day. This morning, I stopped in at ‘Brother John’s’ store to drop off some government documents pertaining to our school staff and enrollment statistics, and to inquire where I could find running water. Lassin has been having water difficulties recently. Our ‘tap finish flowing’ two days ago. The faucet at our next door neighbor’s back yard was one of the last to dry up. John told me where to find the last faucet that still had water flowing in town. I drove to it with a 20 liter (5+ gallon) jug and ten 1.5 liter plastic bottles; 35 liters in all. After filling them and driving to the school, enjoying Carol’s program, and returning home as ‘school bus driver’ (Carol & me, plus 15 school children in our Corolla Tercel- 2 on Carol’s lap, 6 or 7 in the back seat and 6 or so in the luggage area. Don’t worry, we blaze along for about 3 miles at about 12 mph on a virtually empty dirt / sandy gravel road. What a gas!) After arriving home and munching some food with Carol, I shouldered our Toshiba lap-top and trundled off to Shey John’s store for the second time today. I took a seat on the raphia bench across from his ‘check out’ desk and listened to the animated conversation between the Shey and a few of his customers. After about a half hour and a dozen customers and visitors, John followed the last person to the door, and proceeded to close and lock the store. That was my first clue that he had time for a bible study; remember, friendship is so important that bible study or not, just hanging out is a big deal. We watched the lesson on ‘the Sabbath’. As the lesson concluded, I felt compelled to ask John if he would like to join us in worship on Sabbath. He explained that he would love to, and in his heart he is an Adventist, but that his wife and entire family structure (minus his sister Elizabeth and brother Jeffery who were baptized Adventist in ‘08) do not support his decision. We read the story of the ‘rich young ruler’ of Luke 18. We learned that God is inviting us to ‘follow’ him, and that with God, even the things that seem impossible become possible. We prayed that God would perform the impossible in John’s family and give John courage to stand for Him.
When John opened the store doors again, the first heavy rain of the rainy season was falling. The raphia benches lining the front porch of the store were occupied by people waiting out the steady heavy rain well punctuated by thunder. One of those just happened to be brother “D”. We were all invited in from the weather. For the next hour, the conversation was light and funny. “D” and Shey are best of friends (both are very friendly with distinctly varied humor- “D” is very dry and forthright letting the humor of the story stand alone, and Shey loves to listen, smile, then make some funny crack then laugh or chuckle). After a particularly long stretch of stories in the Noni language, the conversation broke into English and I became included in the fun. It seems that an amazing event occurred December 17, ’09. I had invited ‘brother John’ to accompany Carol and me in our Toyota from Lassin, over the mountain and down across the wide plain to Bamenda. John was our navigator. Well, on the morning of the trip, John stopped in at D’s pub for a last cigarette. John did not want to smoke in our car and discussed the problem of the 10 hour trip with D. D suggested that John quit his 2 pack a day habit that day. John agreed. The laughter resumed between the two of them as they retold the story. “I quit that day”, John said. “I have not smoked since then and it’s because of you! I save 1,000 franks a day.” (This is about the ‘wallet impact’ equivalent of $10 a day.) I had no idea of the event. Amazing!
The heavy rains had changed the dry, dusty main market road in front of John’s store into a swift little stream. When they let up, D & I excused ourselves and walked home together. “Hey D, how about a bible study tonight?” “Sure.” Just as amazing as the last story, just before study time, Emanuel showed up at our back door and was very interested in staying for the bible study with D. New Beginnings ‘After the Smoke Clears’ was next for D. They each learned how brief the final cleaning of the earth will be.
Again, let me assure you that not all of our time is spent this way, but when it is, it is incredibly enjoyable!
Have you noticed that I don’t spend much time telling you what goes wrong? There are reasons for this. If I tell you of every pot hole in our road of life, every cloud of road dust that we breath, every cloud of the neighbor’s cooking fire that we inhale, I may scare off some unsuspecting volunteer that may have come out to teach in the school. Well, I’m going to let you in on a secret. Carol and I have a new sport. After just a couple minutes of it, our hearts are pounding and we are giggling like little kids. We play it in the evening about 7 PM. We both play on the same team. It lasts between 2 and 5 minutes each evening. Required equipment? A fly swatter each. Okay, it is at this time that the bats that have begun roosting about March 1 in our eves begin to take to flight. Between 1 and 6 of these flying wonders will enter our living room one at a time. We calmly turn on both lights, take up the swatters and the game begins. We always win. The solution? Start a fire in the house at night, smoke up the rafter area and the bats find a new home. I haven’t had the nerve to light a big fire yet; so far, just a couple old rags. I don’t like smoke either; especially near bed time. Your serve.
News from the “Adventist Medical Automotive” project. Five transports so far. The last two were women; one with severe ‘stomach’ ache from PID, and the most recent with severe ‘pleural effusion’. As I was driving the lady with pleural effusion to Kumbo, her husband was sitting in Shey John’s store telling of how he was going to have to sell some corn to pay for his wife’s medical condition. As he was talking, someone entered the store to tell him that his wife had just been driven out of town on her way to Kumbo. He was shocked. He didn’t even know that she was that bad or that she was planning on leaving. (Life without phones is different here) I had no idea of who she was, only that I had been asked to transport her. Later I learned several things. In Kumbo, she had 3 liters of fluid drained from her lungs. She farms very near our school. I had hired her husband to dig the toilet pit at our school. He was also one of the first farmers that I met on my December ’08 expedition to Lassin. He carried a ‘huge knife’! (farming ‘cutlass’) He really had me worried back then- certainly not now. I saw him a few days ago at the bustling Lassin village market. Our eyes met, he took my hand and earnestly told me how thankful he was for the kindness we showed to him and his wife. “Thank God. Thank God.”
Aside: “True & Sierra”, my heart really goes out in appreciation to you two. Even with all these exciting experiences, there are still times that I’m ready to bag it all and head for ‘home’. This has been an incredible character development project; God has been an excellent instructor. The other day, Carol’s 4 month old avocado pits finally began to sprout in the garden. We had lost all hope of ever seeing sprouts. We never know when the seed of God’s word will sprout in the heart of a person; it could be long after we’ve given up hope. I’m glad you spent years of sowing out there in You-land. God bless you.
There are more stories, but only our closest friends are still reading.
Next ‘issue’: “I’ve known about Seventh-day Adventists and the Sabbath for 20 years. I just never knew where one of their churches was.”
Time feels as if it is really flying now. Pray that we do not let any of it pass without caring for the future of our neighbors. Thank you!
Steve & Carol
It’s March now and already over a third of it has passed. It’s less than two months before Carol and I leave our home in Lassin for our home in the good ‘ol USA. Honestly, the struggle of the week is to remain focused on the work at hand. Carol has her teaching, but I seem to have become stuck waiting between projects. The lumber to build the desks, etc. has not been delivered to Lassin yet. The school building is completed, but the well project threatens to take over our wallet. It seems somehow larger than our limited time; although probably not. Bible studies continue very well with a few friends: Devine (“D” of D’s 5 & dime, card house and pub across the street from us- Sunday @ 1, plus a couple times a week), Emanuel (nurse at the Baptist Health Center of Lassin- when work permits), Shey John (owner of the finest general store in Lassin and ‘Shey’ (ambassador and advisor)to the Fon (top man of the village)- Wed. mornings), Franklin (our carpenter & his family and a few neighbors- Thursday night), and Moses (the school tailor and his whole family- Sunday night).
Have some of you been praying for Shey John? Likely. Here’s what happened today. Our New Beginnings bible study was entitled ‘Fooled by a Myth’, the last lesson about the Sabbath. Let me interject some of the events of the day. This morning, I stopped in at ‘Brother John’s’ store to drop off some government documents pertaining to our school staff and enrollment statistics, and to inquire where I could find running water. Lassin has been having water difficulties recently. Our ‘tap finish flowing’ two days ago. The faucet at our next door neighbor’s back yard was one of the last to dry up. John told me where to find the last faucet that still had water flowing in town. I drove to it with a 20 liter (5+ gallon) jug and ten 1.5 liter plastic bottles; 35 liters in all. After filling them and driving to the school, enjoying Carol’s program, and returning home as ‘school bus driver’ (Carol & me, plus 15 school children in our Corolla Tercel- 2 on Carol’s lap, 6 or 7 in the back seat and 6 or so in the luggage area. Don’t worry, we blaze along for about 3 miles at about 12 mph on a virtually empty dirt / sandy gravel road. What a gas!) After arriving home and munching some food with Carol, I shouldered our Toshiba lap-top and trundled off to Shey John’s store for the second time today. I took a seat on the raphia bench across from his ‘check out’ desk and listened to the animated conversation between the Shey and a few of his customers. After about a half hour and a dozen customers and visitors, John followed the last person to the door, and proceeded to close and lock the store. That was my first clue that he had time for a bible study; remember, friendship is so important that bible study or not, just hanging out is a big deal. We watched the lesson on ‘the Sabbath’. As the lesson concluded, I felt compelled to ask John if he would like to join us in worship on Sabbath. He explained that he would love to, and in his heart he is an Adventist, but that his wife and entire family structure (minus his sister Elizabeth and brother Jeffery who were baptized Adventist in ‘08) do not support his decision. We read the story of the ‘rich young ruler’ of Luke 18. We learned that God is inviting us to ‘follow’ him, and that with God, even the things that seem impossible become possible. We prayed that God would perform the impossible in John’s family and give John courage to stand for Him.
When John opened the store doors again, the first heavy rain of the rainy season was falling. The raphia benches lining the front porch of the store were occupied by people waiting out the steady heavy rain well punctuated by thunder. One of those just happened to be brother “D”. We were all invited in from the weather. For the next hour, the conversation was light and funny. “D” and Shey are best of friends (both are very friendly with distinctly varied humor- “D” is very dry and forthright letting the humor of the story stand alone, and Shey loves to listen, smile, then make some funny crack then laugh or chuckle). After a particularly long stretch of stories in the Noni language, the conversation broke into English and I became included in the fun. It seems that an amazing event occurred December 17, ’09. I had invited ‘brother John’ to accompany Carol and me in our Toyota from Lassin, over the mountain and down across the wide plain to Bamenda. John was our navigator. Well, on the morning of the trip, John stopped in at D’s pub for a last cigarette. John did not want to smoke in our car and discussed the problem of the 10 hour trip with D. D suggested that John quit his 2 pack a day habit that day. John agreed. The laughter resumed between the two of them as they retold the story. “I quit that day”, John said. “I have not smoked since then and it’s because of you! I save 1,000 franks a day.” (This is about the ‘wallet impact’ equivalent of $10 a day.) I had no idea of the event. Amazing!
The heavy rains had changed the dry, dusty main market road in front of John’s store into a swift little stream. When they let up, D & I excused ourselves and walked home together. “Hey D, how about a bible study tonight?” “Sure.” Just as amazing as the last story, just before study time, Emanuel showed up at our back door and was very interested in staying for the bible study with D. New Beginnings ‘After the Smoke Clears’ was next for D. They each learned how brief the final cleaning of the earth will be.
Again, let me assure you that not all of our time is spent this way, but when it is, it is incredibly enjoyable!
Have you noticed that I don’t spend much time telling you what goes wrong? There are reasons for this. If I tell you of every pot hole in our road of life, every cloud of road dust that we breath, every cloud of the neighbor’s cooking fire that we inhale, I may scare off some unsuspecting volunteer that may have come out to teach in the school. Well, I’m going to let you in on a secret. Carol and I have a new sport. After just a couple minutes of it, our hearts are pounding and we are giggling like little kids. We play it in the evening about 7 PM. We both play on the same team. It lasts between 2 and 5 minutes each evening. Required equipment? A fly swatter each. Okay, it is at this time that the bats that have begun roosting about March 1 in our eves begin to take to flight. Between 1 and 6 of these flying wonders will enter our living room one at a time. We calmly turn on both lights, take up the swatters and the game begins. We always win. The solution? Start a fire in the house at night, smoke up the rafter area and the bats find a new home. I haven’t had the nerve to light a big fire yet; so far, just a couple old rags. I don’t like smoke either; especially near bed time. Your serve.
News from the “Adventist Medical Automotive” project. Five transports so far. The last two were women; one with severe ‘stomach’ ache from PID, and the most recent with severe ‘pleural effusion’. As I was driving the lady with pleural effusion to Kumbo, her husband was sitting in Shey John’s store telling of how he was going to have to sell some corn to pay for his wife’s medical condition. As he was talking, someone entered the store to tell him that his wife had just been driven out of town on her way to Kumbo. He was shocked. He didn’t even know that she was that bad or that she was planning on leaving. (Life without phones is different here) I had no idea of who she was, only that I had been asked to transport her. Later I learned several things. In Kumbo, she had 3 liters of fluid drained from her lungs. She farms very near our school. I had hired her husband to dig the toilet pit at our school. He was also one of the first farmers that I met on my December ’08 expedition to Lassin. He carried a ‘huge knife’! (farming ‘cutlass’) He really had me worried back then- certainly not now. I saw him a few days ago at the bustling Lassin village market. Our eyes met, he took my hand and earnestly told me how thankful he was for the kindness we showed to him and his wife. “Thank God. Thank God.”
Aside: “True & Sierra”, my heart really goes out in appreciation to you two. Even with all these exciting experiences, there are still times that I’m ready to bag it all and head for ‘home’. This has been an incredible character development project; God has been an excellent instructor. The other day, Carol’s 4 month old avocado pits finally began to sprout in the garden. We had lost all hope of ever seeing sprouts. We never know when the seed of God’s word will sprout in the heart of a person; it could be long after we’ve given up hope. I’m glad you spent years of sowing out there in You-land. God bless you.
There are more stories, but only our closest friends are still reading.
Next ‘issue’: “I’ve known about Seventh-day Adventists and the Sabbath for 20 years. I just never knew where one of their churches was.”
Time feels as if it is really flying now. Pray that we do not let any of it pass without caring for the future of our neighbors. Thank you!
Steve & Carol
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