Where do we start to describe to you the trip God took us on to Chad and Cameroon this past January? Let us start by praising His holy name for the glory displayed as we traveled along. This was revealed to us in countless ways as the 16 Americans journeyed to the other side of the world in His service. We are thankful for the prayers offered on our behalf as God provided for us each step of the way.

We were blessed by extravagant hospitality along the way. Steve and Janice and their family helped us both coming and going, graciously accommodating us at the Welcome Center.

After a day of border crossing and bus travel, we arrived at the Baptist Mission in Maroua, Cameroon. God treated us to sightings of roan antelope, giraffes and monkeys along the way. There we met up with the evangelism director for the Cameroon LB Church, and sketched out a schedule for the week ahead. Another day of travel with a brief stop in Kaele and we arrived at the Catholic Mission in Yagoua, our home for the week. We toured the Martha Adair Hospital, visited the border crossing at the Logone River and turned in for the night. The next morning we split up and worshipped with three different LB congregations. Pastor Chris Priestaf, Zachary Schroer and Scott Skelton were invited to bring the message.

Sunday afternoon we visited the mission points and set up clinic in the old hospital. We were pleasantly surprised that there was now an administrator of the hospital and they had laid in a supply of medications. An ophthalmologist had been doing cataract operations there of late and he kindly volunteered to help in the low-vision clinic with Vicki and Mike Braaten. We evaluated and treated many of the church pastors and elders and translators who would be working with us in the days ahead as we organized ourselves into triage and lab, medical, vision and pharmacy units.

The team God had assembled was good humored and diverse. Each member seemed both essential and sufficient for the work at hand. We were impressed at how God coordinated our time with His church in Cameroon to bring almost two hundred people to the Lord and plant two new churches in the Yagoua area during our visit. This, despite our lack of language skills in French and Masana (except for Allison and Solveig).

God allowed us to serve hundreds of people in the clinic setting as well, including a number of extremely ill children and adults. In addition to addressing their medical needs, we were able to pray with many of them. God demonstrated time and again how He was sufficient when we felt hopelessly inadequate.

Although many were served in the clinic and touched in the new church plant areas, we saw countless others who were not. The Cameroon CLB plans to carry on the Lord's work there using medications, supplies, and evangelism tools we left behind, powered, of course, by the Holy Spirit. We felt strengthened in the Lord by our brothers and sisters in Cameroon as they felt strengthened by our presence. Please continue to pray with us and our leaders as we seek to discover our part in His work.

Noel Johnson