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Bakwe' Mission on November 4, 2010

LisaandCsaba

A lot has happened since our last post. The most exciting thing has been Lisa’s being restored to full health and Hans’ engagement and upcoming marriage!

(Lisa writes): A lot has been happening with us this year. Hans graduated from the University of Idaho with a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering this past June. He then became engaged in August to a lovely girl from our church named Justine. Now this is the tough part. Hans then left for Boise to take his new job with Hewlett-Packard in September. He now drives up to Moscow twice a month (5 1/2 hours drive) to visit his fiancée. Both are eagerly awaiting January, when they can finally be together and married in Montana, her home state. The rest of the kids aren’t changing quite as drastically. Noai is working in the office of a local Christian ministry and enjoying life after graduating from NSA –our church’s college. Andreas is now in his third year at the same college. He just got a new camera and has been enjoying taking picture of the fall colors. Jeremiah just finished up his cross-country season and a good season. It was a joy to see him run again after a major injury last spring.

Finally, the other amazing change in our family is that, as far as I know, I am now healed! In less than one week I went from doing still poorly, but functioning lightly, to completely normal. It was pretty amazing and so simple a fix too. We just didn’t see it, nor could we put together the many small clues that were there, until we went camping in July. Email us if you would like the longer version. The short story is that we just recently found out that I was suffering from severe obstructive sleep apnea all this time. Now I sleep with a CPAP machine and get all the oxygen and REM sleep that I need! We are very thankful and praising God! Thank you for your prayers!

(Csaba writes):For more specific news on the Bakwé work and prayer requests, please login to the “private” part of this website. To get there, you will need to email us for the password. When you get the password, you get to the private area by clicking on the word “login”, which is barely visible on the top right-hand corner of the web page, just above the words “Bringing the Word to the Bakwé”. My email address is on the footer of the Bakwé Mission web page.

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Solar power

Bakwe' Mission on September 23, 2009

Solar panels

Solar panels

Scott and Benjamin installed a solar backup power system for the office when the city power goes off. The solar panels charge four 12 volt batteries. An inverter converts the 12 volts from the batteries to 110 volts, allowing the office to keep on working for several days if needed.

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Small business seminar 2009

Bakwe' Mission on September 11, 2009

DSC_2847 (Large)Kjell finished up teaching the small business seminar today at noon. He said that it was just great! This morning, as the class went over the data for a small corn growing business, they were really getting into it and starting to see what kinds of questions they need to ask before launching into such a business activity. Kjell said it was quite animated. I (Csaba) will have to ask Kjell to write up something to post here soon. But for now, here is a picture of Kjell with the participants on the last day with their certificates of participation in the seminar.

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Cobra welcome

Bakwe' Mission on September 8, 2009

Cobra kill

Cobra kill

We arrived safely in the village after a safe uneventful road trip, thanks to God. Just after we parked the truck behind the house, we heard a yell from Moïse, the night watchman: “Snake, snake, cobra …” We all ran down to where he had set a trap and caught five cobras recently. Sure enough, there was another one, still caught by the head in his snare. The young men ran around and got a long stick and whacked it thoroughly in the head. It was probably just over seven feet long. I’ll put up a picture here when I can get it uploaded.

Moïse took it home to eat. Later in the evening he brought over some for us. We tried it; it tastes like chicken! I’ve had it before, but for Scott and Benjamin it was a first! They thought it not too bad!

This morning we went out and greeted the village at 6am by going around house to house greeting people as they woke up. This is a Bakwé custom and very important to do. It was a misty, foggy morning. There were many people surprised to see four white guys going from house to house greeting! They were happy to see us. Everyone asked about Lisa and the kids and how they were doing. For me, it was good to be back and see so many familiar faces and everyone’s children who have grown so much since the last time I saw them.

We got back at about 7:30am and had breakfast of coffee and French baguettes before starting our work day. Kjell prepared for teaching the small business seminar that starts tomorrow. Scott and Benjamin worked on getting the solar powered back-up power system ready for installation. They were able to test part of it by the end of the day.

It is wonderful to have so much competent help! Today I mostly spent time visiting with people.

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Scott helping Csaba

Bakwe' Mission on September 4, 2009

Scott and Csaba

Scott and Csaba

My hard drive died after the first day of translation checking. When Scott arrived he lost no time in getting my laptop back up and running with a new hard drive. He recovered my data.

Scott is making progress configuring the new computer equipment we brought out.

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