The group from SBCRC included two children - much to the delight of our children

The South Bend CRC group enjoying the gorgeous mountain scenery

When we traveled to the Northwest with the group from South Bend CRC, we visited Prespot, a Presbyterian ministry which provides work for a local village through pottery-making. Their work was beautiful!

Anneke enjoyed taking part in the VBS that the group from South Bend Christian Reformed Church led in July. We had 200 local children attend!

Bush meat!

Typical meal - fufu (corn paste), njama-njama (greens), grilled fish, and yams

Village market

Typical village road

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Trip to Kumbo

The local children LOVED having their pictures taken.

Passengers

Two of our passengers were a Cameroonian doctor going to see a patient and a missionary needing a quick trip to the capital city.

The Runway

Does it look like there's a drop-off at the end of the runway? There is!

From the end of the runway the view is magnificent - lush green rolling hills that fade into the distance. The runway is at an altitude of 6,500 ft.

Shopping in Kumbo

Buying firewood

The local supermarket was small but had an amazing selection of French wines! At the market I was surprised to run into several people who didn't know any English or French. I had to barter in sign language.

Our welcoming committee in Kumbo

Flights in the desert

Recently Ray spent a week flying in the high desert in Northern Cameroon. On the hottest day it reached 117 degrees! He saw many animals from the plane - lions, giraffes, countless antelope - but the only ones big enough to show up on a picture taken from that altitude were the elephants. He counted about 250 elephants. He also saw villages in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and the people often all ran out to wave at the plane.

Anneke gets 61 braids in her hair!

The new helicopter will be used to gain access to remote regions of Northwest Cameroon. It will serve SIL personnel as well as the personnel of two Baptist hospitals in the Northwest. Now the doctors will be able to serve areas that were inaccessible to them before.

We had a very relaxing few days with my parents in the mountains of Northwest Cameroon. We enjoyed sipping our coffee on chilly mornings and watching the valley below us. Actually, because of the Harmattan (dust from the Sahara in the air), we could barely see the valley. The dust was like a white cloud hanging that won't clear up until March.

Our neighbor across the street has a bakery; this is his oven.

Our hosts in Lolodorf showed gave us a tour of their manioc fields. They explained that they put a curse on certain twisted seed pods so that if thiefs step on one, their back will become just as twisted as the seed pod.