Financial Partnership Instructions

How do you become a financial partner in our Wycliffe ministry? Click the “Give” link.  But what does that mean? How does it work? In this post we will walk through step by step how to contribute to our financial needs online. The side bar of our website includes a “Give” link to our Wycliffe personal missionary page, (where you can also send us a note in case you lose our address). This page looks like this: (more…)

90%!

We just hit 90% of our Wycliffe budget! This is particularly encouraging, because for some time now I’ve had difficulty answering our most frequently asked question: “When are you leaving?” I usually mumble something unintelligible (you might have noticed this), then try to say something about it depending in part Read more…

New ˈLand

The majority of group housing is in a compound with a shared wall and guard, called New Land —presumably because it was once new… But lots of our colleagues live there, and there is a central play ground where Joel got to try out the tire swing: as did James: Read more…

NASCAL2

As we mentioned before we left, one of the main goals of our March trip to Cameroon was attending the second National Symposium on Cameroonian Languages (NASCAL2). It was good that we could schedule the trip to coincide with this conference, as this is part of a significant goal for Read more…

Group Date Night

One thing we didn’t expect, when we booked this trip, was that it would coincide with the opening of Captain Marvel in Cameroon. Someone in the community organized tickets, so we went along for the experience. I thought it interesting that the theater parking lot (on a major university campus) Read more…

Getting to the Conference

One of the main goals of our March trip to Cameroon was attending the second National Symposium on Cameroonian Languages (NASCAL2), which was held some six hours by road north of Yaoundé. So before detailing the conference itself, I’ll chronicle the trip up and back. Mostly because I saw more Read more…

Out and About

We saw lots of things just driving from one place to another in Yaoundé. Perhaps the first most notable thing is the traffic: Lots of cars going lots of places, with very little space between them. If someone is in your way, you just go around them (especially if you Read more…

Around the Center

Here is a picture of Kim walking from the center finance office to the building where we stayed on the trip. The cement may look older, but SIL is celebrating its 50th anniversary of working in Cameroon, so that’s understandable. Between the buildings, there are of course lots of living Read more…