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doulos
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
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Location: Springfield, MA
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Camp Baptiste, Bouak, RCI June 13, 2008
Greetings from Camp Baptiste!
Where are we? We’re at International Christian Academy in Bouak, Cote d’Ivoire which is now a French military base named after the local French name for the school Ecole Baptiste (Baptist school). I told Wayne on our first night that if we squint a bit looking out of the window, the troops that go by look a little like the high school boys that used to roam the campus; many aren’t that much older.
We’ve spent most of these first 25 days just settling in and getting used to our surroundings twice! We arrived in Abidjan Tuesday evening, May 20, and drove up country, through Bouak, all the way to Korhogo (8 hours) where our project is centered. What a surprise we gave Abdoulaye, the PEDEBE* director when we arrived in his office on Thursday! He came by the house the next morning to discuss the project and assure us that many of the pastors had been praying for us and Monica during the past year. How blessed we felt to be an answer to their prayers.
*PEDEBE stands for Programme (program) d’Enseignement (of teaching) D'centralis (decentralized or by extension) des Eglises (of the churches) Baptistes (Baptist) Evang？liques (evangelical). Often we call this type of program TEE: Theological Education by Extension. Students remain at home but meet together regularly for training. They have studies to do each day in their workbooks our job is to re-type and print these 15 workbooks so the program can continue. Abdoulaye says 450 church leaders have taken courses through this program; the need continues to be great as there are currently 80 trained pastors for about 400 churches. We also promised to find the money to complete the project to get PEDEBE back on track.
After feeling somewhat settled in Torogo (the mission station outside of Korhogo), on Monday we moved three hours south to Bouak？ and Camp Baptiste. The plan is that we will live here and go up to Korhogo as needed; we hope to use the advantages of each place to further our ministry. For example e-mail: in Korhogo, we share one account on a slow dial-up system that means driving into town and sitting in a small office. The other day it took 25 minutes to check a bank account online each time the screen changed took almost a minute! In Bouak？ we have two choices: a wireless internet caf？ in town for 72￠ an hour (but the road to town is very rough and jarring and the connection went down while we were there) or the French military satellite system which I can access from my old ICA office for $5.42 an hour (but 13,000 troops have access to that, especially in the evening!). Here we have steady electricity; in Torogo we have hot water.
The funniest thing this week happened Tuesday while we were visiting the town orphanage. The directrice was filling out the paperwork for the newest baby who had arrived the night before. She asked Wayne for his name she named the new baby Dieudonn？ (God-given) Nelson!
We value your prayers for our adjustment(s) as we begin the PEDEBE project. Looking out at the campus (and seeing the troops, trucks and helicopters!), I can’t believe we are actually back!
We’re back!
Wayne & Melody Nelson
PS: June 14 we celebrate our 39th anniversary! |
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