Sunday, November 27. 2005
 It has been said that life in the mission field is never boring (for long that is) and I haven't found it a false statement. Today Daniela (the other SM) and I went to go to the caves in Tormelin, a village about 30km from Fria on my motorcycle (I bought a 125cc Chinese-made motorcycle in Conakry a few weeks ago). No sooner had we left Fria than we were stopped at a police checkpoint. As usual, they looked over all the motorcycle papers and admitted that they were "normal;" undeterred, they tried to extract a few thousand francs (at least they were far nicer than the soldiers I was stopped by last time in Fria)!
Continue reading "Caves and Flat Tires"
Friday, November 25. 2005
Good News! My application for a visa to travel to Namibia has been
approved! Praise the Lord--and a BIG THANK YOU to all of you who have been in
prayer for me and the Namibia mission project. This is a huge step forward:
now at least we can plan on finalizing travel arrangements and have a
definite goal for launching. However, we still have not heard any word
regarding the visa application for Lisa Scott, so please continue to keep
that in your prayers--that her application will come through in the mail by
this week or early next week.
Again, thank you for your prayers and please continue to keep the project
in prayer--especially the visa application for Lisa. I will post another
update in a few weeks after more definite plans have been made. Keep
in touch!
Continue reading "A Happy Thanksgiving!"
Thursday, November 24. 2005
Well everyone, it seems the first attempt to post this was done from my other email address which I apparently didn't give posting permission to, so it just rebounded. So now I'm posting it again (from the CORRECT address this time) though it's a couple weeks late now. Just remember that this all happened around the date that's shown below. I'll post more when I have time. Just so you know, I've been here in the project for a week now, and we just finished celebrating Thanksgiving (we even found some red, yellow, and orange leaves to use in making a center piece for the table! I was so happy!) For now, I'll just leave you to digest the things I wrote a couple weeks ago. God bless!
With love in Christ,
Jeremy Gable
Continue reading "Philippines!"
Wednesday, November 23. 2005
I want to make an urgent appeal this week for prayer that Lisa's my visas for Namibia will come through this week, before the holidays. I just received the following update from Gideon and Pam Petersen. The committee is meeting this week for the last time this year--so if the visas do not come through this week it will be next year before we hear anything. Of course, Lisa and I were originally planning to travel to Namibia during the first week of January. Although it appears that this will not be possible at this point, if the visa is delayed until January it may be impossible to travel before until much later. So please make this a matter of special prayer.
Continue reading "Urgent Prayer Request for Visas"
Hello, and happy thanksgiving (tomorow) to all of you wonderful people! I have so much to be thankful for this year! God, friends, family, supporters, your prayers, love and encouragement, and a good year so far in Thailand! But right now I am really thankful for answers to prayers. Let me tell you about one of them...
Continue reading "Doi Sutep / Run for the Border!"
Thursday, November 17. 2005
Tennille, Nicole, and I walked downtown to the Art Market in Bamako (the
capital of Mail). That is when we met Melvin. Seeing us white people, this
younger looking black man chased us down the sidewalk asking us for help in
broken English and if he could talk to us. We stop. He continues to relate
to us how he is stranded in Bamako, arriving yesterday from Ghana on his
way to Morocco. He ran out of money in Bamako and needed to call his mom
in Philadelphia for her to wire him money, but he had no money to buy a
calling card. Melvin, by the way, is a native of Nairobi who was kicked
out his home due to political unrest and is now going to school in
Morocco. We quizzed him for awhile, skeptical of his story, but he
appeared trustworthy and knew what he was talking about. So we bought him
a calling card. Afterwards he said he would pray that God would be with us
for the rest of our lives. We then asked if he would want to pray with us
right then and he agreed and held out his hands to hold during prayer. It
was a remarkable experience.
Continue reading "A second update from Kangaba"
Hi Everyone! As I find myself blessed with some internet time, I thought I'd give you a brief accounting of the Lie Ka Tone festival. I'm sure I have ampaly slaughtered the name, but to my American ears, that's what the festival's name sounded like, so I appologize to any of you who actually know how to say/spell it. So with that disclamer, on with the e-mail!
Continue reading "Lie Ka Tone"
Wednesday, November 16. 2005
Life is beginning to settling into a routine so there are fewer new experiences to write about. However, once and a while I get out and do something interesting. Not too long ago, I took off an afternoon and went with Neil (one of the other missionaries) on his motorcycle down in the big river.
Continue reading "Afternoon jaunt"
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