Babanki Project, Dusty Tan, Lake Awing

Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
Thank you for continuing to pray for us as we serve in Cameroon.
Sorry for few updates for a week. We've been on the road and without internet much of the time.

During the weekend, we got wonderful interviews and photos for CABTAL articles on translation teams. But the past two days I've had what Cameroonians so delicately call "running stomach," so I've remained close to the room. As a compromise, people have met me here, at the Baptist Guest House, for interviews.

So far we’ve interviewed and photographed teams from BOKOKO, AWING, and PINYIN languages. This includes linguists, translators, project coordinators, exegesis checkers, Bible Use and literacy specialists, and many, many pastors of village churches.

This work entailed seven bone-jarring hours of rutted, rocky dirt roads EACH day, to/from sites. Thus, we return each day with "dirt tans." Gary and I are bruised from hitting the sides of the jeep, and he took a camera video, to show it, but it was great fun. The “Wild Cat” roller coaster has nothing on Cameroon!

Cameroon’s NW mountains and many valleys are absolutely GORGEOUS! Here is Gary at Lake AWING. We’re often reminded of WA State, except here it's hotter, dryer, dustier, and there are coffee plants, papaya, and banana trees everywhere!

Pray for these people who desperately want to read the Bible in their mother tongue, with all the cultural nuances.

We plan to go on to two more language projects tomorrow, then home to Yaoundé.