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November 14, 2006

Getting sorted...

Home sweet home
Work on our yard in Gorom is apparently making progress. These photos were from a couple of weeks ago before I went to Niamey.


This photo shows the yard looking towards the north. The house I am staying in is on the far left, half-hidden under the acacia tree... The house on the right is where Seydou and Monique and family live. And in the middle is Seydou’s trusty steed, the Yamaha DT 125, which I first bought for my ministry in 1991, and which Seydou is still using.

This photo, looking towards the south, shows the work starting on the new house we are building. Pastor Moumouni is hoping to move in here once it is finished. This photo was taken on Sat 28 Oct. Seydou is using his donkey cart to fetch water for the construction.

This photo was taken 6 days later on the 3 Nov. Work has continued since then, and apparently now they are ready to put the roof on.

Mobile again
I hope to head up to Djibo tomorrow with Steve and a young Aussie called Carl, and then across to Gorom on Saturday. We will – if we get the paperwork finished – be travelling in a vehicle I have just bought with the generous help of friends in the UK. I hope to be travelling a lot to visit the pastors in the region over the coming months, so this will be a great help – no more waiting hours at the side of the road for a lift with urinating goats, no more balancing precariously on top of swaying millet trucks….

It is 4-wheel drive, of course, and there is plenty of room to carry Fulani, local pastors… and even visitors from “white-man’s country”…

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Posted by Keith at November 14, 2006 07:00 PM