Africa Journal Day 11

Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Day 11
Jos, Orkar’s home

Today is to be our last day in Nigeria. Tomorrow we are to fly from Jos to Lagos in the morning, then on to Douala, Cameroon, in the evening. The major reason for going to Cameroon is a weekend seminar I am offering the SIL Cameroon (Wycliffe Bible Translators) staff, entitled Everything that Hinders. I will be spending quite a bit of time today, and tomorrow as we travel on prep time. This seminar is similar to the Living Your Destiny workshop we did in Charlottetown some weeks ago, except that I am the only one of our Centre for Restoring Hope team to present. So I’ll be flying solo.

Andrew and I played tennis yesterday; took a while for me to get going, as I have only played occasionally while in Florida. We managed to finish two sets before it got too hot. We had fun. The court is at the Mountain View Guesthouse, where we often stayed as a family during our missionary days. The guesthouse looked to be well maintained.

In the afternoon we did some visitation, Andrew did some shopping, and we picked up our flight tickets to Cameroon. I was happy to check my emails and hear from Cathy. We rejoice in the good news that Nathan received a full scholarship to UPEI.

We had a quiet evening with the Orkar’s. Esther has started writing a memoir of her life, which she hopes to be an encouragement to other women. She seemed frustrated with her layout and asked for help. I hope the suggestions for the outline that I gave her will improve the readability, and the impact.

Today we hope to visit Evangel Hospital and to go hiking where we often did in the early days; I think it is called Shere Hills.