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BREAKING NEWS FROM AFRICA
February 2003

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)

• Unrest in the CAR is escalating, but all the Covenant missionaries are safely out of the country. Here is where they are:

  Bob & Karen Andrews	in the US temporarily
  Karen Benson	language study in Cameroon after Feb. 15
  Barb Boca	language study in Cameroon after Feb. 15
  Paul & Sheryl Noren	language study in Cameroon
  Mary Samuelson	in Cameroon tutoring missionary children
  Ken Satterberg	in Cameroon after Feb. 20
  Ron & Janet Ziegelbaur	in Cameroon - temporary support ministries

  
  
• PRAY for peace to return to the CAR

CONGO COVENANT CHURCH

• Peace and stability are returning to Northwest Congo where the Congo Covenant Church is located. Recent reports of violence have taken place in East Congo, which is 600+ miles from the Congo Covenant Church area.
  
  
• The Congo Covenant Church ministries continue to move forward.
  
  
• Covenant World Relief gave $25,000 for the purchase of emergency medicines for Congo on January 24. Emergency medicines were purchased and transported into Congo January 31. This purchase was necessary due to the crisis in the CAR, where the regular shipment of medicines was blocked leaving the Congo medical services out of many medicines.
  
  
• All three of the Congo Church hospitals and 70 rural health centers are functioning.
  
  
• 100 pastors were trained at portable Bible Schools during 2002.
  
  
• Four new churches were recently planted in a new area.
  
  
• Mission outreach to the forest Pygmies continues. Thirty-five Pygmy believers were baptized during 2002.
  
  
• Contact has been made with the Zande, another unreached people in the CAR.

MISSIONARIES

Africa missionaries currently on home assignment for 2002-2003 include:

• Roy & Aleta Danforth
• Pete & Cindy Ekstrand
• Keith & Florence Gustafson
• Galen & Jill Johnson
• Jeff & Carolyn Stoker