Month: January 2008

  • Day Off today

    “For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.” - Psalm 36:9 NASB

    We have our annual church business meeting today.

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    Cartoon #5933
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Along the same theme as the cartoon ……
    I don’t talk about politics too much but I’m curious.
    Who would you like to see as the next President and why?

  • 4 Things

    A) FOUR PLACES I GO OVER AND OVER: 
     
    B) FOUR PEOPLE WHO E-MAIL ME:  Dan, Annette,  
     
    C ) FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS: Chinese, Japanese, Seafood, Sushi,
     
    D) FOUR PLACES I’D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:  Carribeans, Phillipines, Australia, Africa
     
    E) FOUR PEOPLE I THINK WILL RESPOND:  Several   
     
    F) FOUR MOVIES I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AND OVER: Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, 
    Home Alone,   
     
    So now, blog this to your site and let us learn more about you.
    Today's Cartoon

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    This was the gate we entered everytime we went to the Missionaires house.  There was always a guard by the gate.
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  • Refreshing

    A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will
    himself be refreshed.

    Proverbs 11:25

    How do you “refresh” others?

    My other site that I write articles: http://article77.blogspot.com/

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    The Nigerians really loved this paper trick.

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    Alicia handing out some of her 30 pounds of candy.
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    Nigerian mothers strap their babies to their backs.  I did see a lot of young girls holding their baby sister/brother like this also.  One interesting note:  I heard very few Nigerian babies cry. 

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    I asked the kids on Wednesday night if they knew what a warthog was.  Many did not.  I then asked them if they knew “Bumba”.  All of them knew Bumba.  We stayed one place that had a lot of warthogs and baboons.
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    We did Kid’s Church one Sunday while we were in Nigeria.  This is only a small portion of the kids and Children’s Workers that attended.   

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    Things in Nigeria move very slowly.  No one is in a hurry at all.  When we stopped for gas at one station it took us nearly a half an hour to get it. 
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    Many people carry things on thier heads.  Of course this is bannanas.HPIM1618
    This was very common.  People carried a lot of things on small motorcycles.  I would of loved to get a picture of the goats being carried on motorcylcles but was unable. Yes, goats were carried on motorcycles.  It saw up to 5 people on one of these small cycles. 
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    Here is the entire team with our safari guides.  The one in white pants was our guide.  He told me that he was a zoologists.  In Nigeria the government picks your profession and sends you to school for it. 

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    I bought my wife a purse from this man.  It was great quality and made of ram’s skin. 
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    A lot of cults in Nigeria.  The cults take the children and the children become demon possessed.  The Nigerians then call these children “Contaminants”.

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    This was the market place.
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    I enjoyed the Nigerian Children.
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    Gas was 70 nira a liter.  = 280 nira a gallon  Conversion: $2.70 US a gallon.   There were always really long lines at all the gas stations.  I saw a lot of cars being pushed into the gas stations.