Friday, January 27. 2006
Well, it's hard to believe it's been a week and a half since I wrote my last e-mail. So much has happened, time has gone by so fast! Thursday on the way up here to Opuwo, just a couple hours after leaving Windhoek, I had the interesting experience of sliding to a stop in a vehicle nearly out of control, while watching the rear wheel of the truck roll past my window...
Continue reading "African Adventures #1"
Saturday, January 21. 2006
Recently I heard a missionary say that you should never report that
everything is "fine" if indeed not everything is fine. "By doing so," he
said, "you deny yourself the extra prayers and petitions of those that love
you, and you cannot afford to be cut off from prayers." Now I realize that
I am blessed with a great many loved ones that pray for me on a regular
basis whether I am "fine" or not, but so as not to disillusion anyone or to
cut off any prayers that are desperately needed I'm going to tell you some
things that are going on here right now. Please keep in mind that I'm not
trying to scare any family members (Gramma I'm really safe and at the moment
very healthy) I just feel that I need to express the things that are in dire
need of prayers right now.
Continue reading "Don't eat the Grizzly Bear they said"
Hello everyone!
Sorry I haven't been able to write in a couple weeks. Two weeks ago the hydro generator went down in a way that I didn't know how to fix yet, and Pastor was in the lowlands so he couldn't fix it. Because he couldn't examine it either, we couldn't troubleshoot it over the radio. So without hydro power, we were conserving power as much as possible and the computer uses alot.
Continue reading "Satan Attacks"
Wednesday, January 18. 2006
Dear Friends,
After long months of planning, fundraising, training, and preparations, I
have finally launched to Africa to assist the Petersen's in the Himba church
planting project. As I type this, I am crossing the Atlantic Ocean en-route to
Namibia, Africa! So first off, I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all of you
who are supporting me through your prayers! That means a lot--just to know
you are praying for me. Also many of you have supported me financially in
this undertaking--for that I am very grateful! Without your support, this
mission trip could not have happened. Of course, I don't want anyone to think
for a minute that this mission trip is about me or anything I can do--this
venture is all about God and what God is doing, through people like you and
me, to reach the unreached in Africa and around the globe. It is my fervant
hope and prayer that God can work through me and the Himba Project team, as
well as you--our supporters in the United States--to reach souls for His
Kingdom. I also hope and pray that you will be blessed and inspired to
continue service for God and perhaps even join frontier mission work as a
short-term or career missionary.
Continue reading "Daniel in Africa!"
Sunday, December 4. 2005
Well, the rainy season is supposedly coming to a close but not without one
last hoorah! Two nights ago we were awakened in Kemantian by probably the
loudest thunder I've ever heard and the heaviest rain I've ever seen. If I
hadn't gone outside in it (one of those annoying calls of nature) I would
have assumed it was the legendary cats and dogs coming down on our grass
roof. The next morning we awoke to water everywhere and no power.
Continue reading "Cats and dogs, and then some"
Hello everyone! I FINALLY have a chance to do some more updating.
Unfortunately, I still don't have alot of time. It seems that this is
going to be the case for most of the times. Just so that you're all
aware, my scheduled email time is Sunday 10-11 am (my time) which is 14
hours ahead of US Central Standard Time. So with that in mind, you'll
have to figure out what time that will be wherever you're reading this
from. For anyone interrested in sending things to me here at the
project, you can find my mailing address on the AFM website, which is
www.afmonline.org Just click on Student Missionaries on the left side
of the screen, and then click on my name and browse through the options
displayed on that page.
Continue reading "Kemantian"
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"
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!"
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