Volume 1, Issue 6 December 2008

If I then, your
Lord and Teacher,
have washed your
FAY FOOTPRINTS

John 13:14-15
feet, you also ought
to wash one an-
other’s feet. For I
Lutheran Bible Translators have given you an
example, that you
also should do just
For our last newsletter of 2008, we reflect back on the year in a series of “Top 10” as I have done to
lists. We hope your year has been a blessed one, as well, and that you have a joyous you.
Christmas season!

10 changes in 2008 (in chronological order):

1) We officially became missionaries with LBT!
2) Sam learned to walk and then run…
3) We finished initial coursework in Dallas. • Praise God for the wonderful
4) We said goodbye to friends in Dallas and met lots of new ones in Michigan, Indiana, relationships cultivated and
Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas.
5) We learned that we’ll soon be a family of four! (Oh, and Sam is getting a cousin!). the overall response we have
6) Sam learned to make bigger messes, play pretend, and do chores (throw things in the received from the churches
trash and put toys back). and individuals we have al-
7) Kory got glasses so he can see a little better when he’s on the road.
8) Cara chopped her hair off 11” to give to locks of love. ready visited.
9) Sam’s English vocabulary increased from 2 words to about 50. His parents increased
their French vocabulary by a couple of hundred words. • Pray for a healthy pregnancy
10) We’ve spent more time with family and old friends while we stay for a couple of for Cara.

Pray For Us...

weeks/months at a time near (or with!) various folks.
• Pray for us as we travel, that
Top 10 PD moments (in no particular order):
PD, by the way, is short for partnership development, which involves speaking to we would go/share/do as He
churches, Bible studies, etc. If you’d like us to visit your church, let us know! leads.
1) Getting lost on our way to our very first presentation and arriving 5 minutes before
the service, instead of 20 minutes, which was the original plan. • Pray for our French language
2) Trying to give a presentation while Sam stood behind us and played peek-a-boo with
the Bible study class. learning, that we would have
3) Watching Sam help, in his own way, by smiling up a storm and shaking hands. increased motivation even
4) Hearing gasps from the crowd when they realize the great need for Bible translation. though it may be several
5) Meeting young people who also feel called to missions.
6) Receiving the generous hospitality of strangers and friends, time and time again.
months before we begin formal
7) Q & A time– we love answering questions, even if we don’t always know the an- schooling in France.
swers! It’s fun talking about what you want to talk about.
8) Becoming so comfortable with our presentation that the nervousness has basically • Pray that more people will
worn off and all that’s left is excitement! consider this ministry not just
9) Going to the front of a church to be introduced and having Sam yell out “Hot! Hot!”
repeatedly while pointing at lit candles. ours but theirs, as well.
10) Receiving so many encouraging words, both in person and through email. Your
prayers keep us going.

The Top 5 Sam moments:

5) Sam’s favorite baby sitter is whoever is mowing the lawn. It’s mesmerizing.
4) One week, while Cara’s parents were on vacation, Sam missed the ritual of kissing
moe-ma and papa goodnight, so he found his picture book (his own idea) and kissed
their pictures instead.
3) He had his own pumpkin this year and after Halloween we decided that it would be
fun to let him smash it on the porch. Afterward, we told him the pumpkin broke and he
helped put it in the trash. Ever since then, whenever he sees a pumpkin, he announces:
“Boke. Chash” (Translation: Broke. Trash.)
2) Learning to pray… from holding out his hands to hold ours, to saying “amem”, to
babbling while someone else prays, to crying when Kory forgot to say his nighttime
prayer and calming instantly when he remembered.
1) Cara: What does a cow say? Sam: ooooo C: What does a dog say? S: Woof C: What
does a cat say? S: Oww C: What does Dada say? S: No no no. Don’t touch.” Making new friends
 Partnership Update

As you can probably tell from the

front of this newsletter, we have felt
incredibly blessed during this time of
partnership development. We have
Cameroonian Food raw green (spinach, kale, etc.), ground
peanuts, seasonings, meat (fish is often
loved getting to meet so many peo-
If you study different cultures around
the world, you will notice that like the used), chicken broth, various peppers, ple, hear their stories, and see them
United States, most include food as a and tomatoes. When we first heard get excited about Bible translation!
major part of their celebrations. Since what was in it, we were a little skepti- We are blessed to have so many of
this is the holiday season, we thought cal, but it tastes wonderful!
Our favorite food, of the ones we’ve
you praying for us and to receive
we’d share a bit about what Cameroo-
nians eat! tried, has definitely been fried plan- your donations. However, we are
Once again, Cameroon lives up to the tains, also known as dodo (“doe doe”). always looking for more partners! If
name “Africa in miniature” when it They look like very large bananas and you are looking for a way to tithe in
comes to food. There are many differ- you can find them in most grocery
the coming year, please ask the Lord
ent staples depending on where you are stores here in the U.S. They are sliced
in the country, so we’ll share some of and fried in oil. They are a little bit if He would have you give toward this
the things we ate at a West African res- sweet and taste like a hybrid of carrot, ministry. We have about 25% of our
taurant in Dallas where both owners potato, and banana, so they taste great ministry expenses coming in each
were from Cameroon and at a lunch covered in the aforementioned sauce or
month and we need 100% before we
made by Pam Maxey, an LBT mission- plain with a dash of salt. Pictured
ary who served in Cameroon for 12 above are each of the foods: dodo, cous- can leave in August. If He is not
years. cous, and ndolé with uncut plantains. leading you to give regularly but you
The dish that serves as the base of the would like to give in some way, con-
meal (similar to rice or pasta or bread) is In His Love,
sider giving to our household set-up
fufu (pronounced foo-foo) or couscous Kory, Cara, and Sam
(“coos-coos”… not the same as the project which will help us buy things
round rice-like grain that you find at we need for our house in Cameroon
the grocery store). It is made of cassava (furniture and so on). We currently
(a root plant) that has been boiled, have $2,682 toward our goal of
dried, and ground into a flour. Water is
then added to make a paste and it’s $10,000 for that project. Thank you,
rolled into balls. Theoretically, you are thank you, thank you for your gener-
supposed to swallow them without osity!
chewing. They are very bland, cheap,
and filling. The mission of
The couscous is usually topped with LBT is to help
some sort of sauce, the most common
being Ndolé (pronounced nn-doe-lay). bring people to
It is made with bitterleaf or some sort of faith in Jesus
Christ by making
the Word of God
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