June 2007

    A Day in the Life of Our Family  June1

    This morning as I tried to wipe the sleep from my eyes, I began my daily shuffle to the bathroom, hoping our electricity would be on today and hoping we had enough water pressure to take a good shower. As I turned open the water faucet, I silently thanked God we didn’t have a water shortage today, and I began thinking about all of the things that needed to be done in the next 16 hours.  Before the rest of the family woke up, I had my “God and I time,” ate something quickly, and rushed to the market hoping to buy six kilos of fresh meat.  June2

    While waiting for the butchers to do their job on the unsuspecting cow still chewing his cud behind the meat stand, I crossed the road to greet a friend who has been missing from church for several weeks. It started raining, and I began distributing tracts to about a dozen people loitering around under a zinc-mettle overhang. For the next 20 minutes, as we all waited for the rain to die down, I preached the powerful message of John 14:6 to the small “captive” audience.

    From the market I drove up to the Fundamental Bible Institute of Cameroon where I taught Church History from 8-10 a.m.  Back home, Becca was preparing the kids for the day.  She fed them all breakfast and then began teaching Drew his schoolwork.  Kate and Emma have been coloring through coloring books like crazy, and Faith is completely mobile now, which keeps Becca on her toes all day long. Late morning, Becca began making lunch. Often times she will bake homemade bread, and we will eat fresh tomato sandwiches or PB and J sandwiches on homemade bread.  Yummy!June4

    After returning from the Institute, I spent about three hours cutting, trimming, grinding, and bagging the meat I bought in the morning.  At 2 p.m. Matt and I went out for two hours of evangelism and visitation. Becca spent the afternoon standing over our dying washing machine, pouring in the necessary water each cycle, while taking care of the kids and the house ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Of course I have several pet and nicknames for Becca, but on days like today, “Super Mom” is the title that comes to mind.

    June3At about 4:30 p.m. our family piled into our four-wheel drive station wagon and off we went, slipping and sliding down the dirt road leading to Bible Baptist Church in Bambili and to our midweek prayer meeting. After the service we returned to our house and Becca made creamed carrots over rice.  Shortly after family devotions and putting the kids to bed for the night, I received a call concerning a young man we have been ministering to in Bamenda. He has been battling tuberculosis for six months, and just this week he was also diagnosed with typhoid fever. The phone call was from one of our members, calling to inform us that 32-year-old Eric had just died in the hospital, leaving his wife a widow and his daughter an orphan.

    What a day!  This announcement a few moments ago reminded us of Christ’s statemJune5ent in Matt. 9:37. “Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.” We count it a tremendous privilege to serve the Lord here in Cameroon. It is a daily joy to serve the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, but Cameroonians, young and old, are dying at alarming rates every day.  We are praying the Lord of the Harvest to send more laborers into His harvest.  The doors of opportunity are too many to list.  Are you willing to come over into Cameroon and help us?  We invite you personally, or a group from your church, to come out for a short-term missions trip. And to all of our faithful prayer and financial supporters, we want to close by saying, “Thank you for allowing us yet another day to serve the Lord here in Cameroon!”

    -The Sinclair Family