Year: 2006

Cameroon #28 2-18-06 Oh Im glad your back! We had just been on a couple days of relaxation before Dr. Hamza leaves for good. We had spent a few days in Rumsiki, an expensive, beautiful tourist spot a couple hours…

Shanksteps Marie, age 14, was in a coma when her parents brought her into the Koza ER. They said that she had only been sick for 2 days. She had complained of headache and nausea and they had given her…

Dear Family and Friends, What a last few weeks this has been. I am reminded of a verse in Psalms 34:19 which says “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” Well…

SHANKSTEPS CHRISTMAS 2005 Somehow this Christmas felt a bit different than Christmas’ past. Perhaps it was the 80 degrees instead of 20; or the dust swirling in our barren back yard rather than snow; maybe the scarcity of Christmas lights;…