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Afghan Medical Mission Ends in Death for 10
The bullet-riddled bodies — including three women — were found Friday near three four-wheeled drive vehicles in a wooded area just off the main road that snakes through a narrow valley in the Kuran Wa Munjan district of Badakhshan, provincial police chief Gen. Agha Noor Kemtuz told The Associated Press.
One of the dead Americans had spent about 30 years in Afghanistan, rearing three daughters and surviving both the Soviet invasion and bloody civil war of the 1990s that destroyed much of Kabul.
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some great numbers
(While ministry is not about numbers, here are some numbers that really made me proud to be part of our team.)
In the past two years, more than 20,000 patients have been cared for at the SIM clinic in Doro and more than 400 accutely malnourished children have been loved back to health in the SIM nutrition village. Praise the Lord for His faithfulness and for allowing us the joy of being involved.
Praise God for our team here on the ground as well as for all of you who support us with prayer, encouragement and financial support!
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BBC-Kenya faces ‘meltdown’
Please pray for Kenya!
This is day three of a potentially serious dispute between the two (rival) parties in the “Grand Coalition Government”.
“In 2012 it’s very likely we’re going to have a meltdown …We have the significant risk that Kenya will be generating to a failed state. This is how in Sierra Leone and indeed Liberia were fomented: the executive being eliminated and oblivious for the failed state risks that corruption causes especially where the population is young, educated and unemployed.”
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star-studded
Sorry for the posting delinquency. Since last Friday, it has been ‘all hands on deck’ at the hangar getting the DC-3 through a check 1 inspection so it could do some VIP flying this week. Yesterday was a bit hectic, due to an electrical issue with our King Air, but I did get to meet Franklin Graham and also this guy, who rode shotgun in my truck…while his uber-expensive guitar rode in the back. The collection of people you meet out here in Africa is crazy.
Tomorrow I have a flight to a town up near the Ethiopian border. I am hoping to videotape it and post a ‘day in the life’ videocast. I wish we could do the same for Ginna, but we can’t for security reasons. She is going to her clinic tomorrow though, for the first time this year. Your prayers for the two of us tomorrow would be appreciated.
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well.
Thanks for prayin’. The K fam is back on our feet and working our way to the new and improved, full-strength, 2010 formula!
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BBC News – 2,000 killed in last year
This BBC News article paints a discouraging picture of the situation on the ground in Sudan going into the elections in April. More people were killed in Southern Sudan than in Darfur Sudan in the past 12 months. Please keep praying.
