Wycliffe:Live October 2011 – Part One

The MAF plane flew into Korupun, West Papua in Indonesia – bringing the Kimyal New Testament to the Kimyal people. As the elders received the first box of New Testaments, one of the pastors prayed to God: The month that you had set, the day that you has set, has come to pass today… You [...]

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Wycliffe at Dublin Culture Night 23 September 2011

It’s a fine and fancy ramble from the northside to the south… 100 miles in fact from Belfast to Dublin last Friday to be part of the Grace Fellowship Church event as part of Dublin Culture Night. See also my recent blog. I had brought with me a substantial part of the Wycliffe UK travelling [...]

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It’s about people, not projects!

I’ve blogged about Mick Toolin (a Wycliffe volunteer from Dublin) before: I think this was the first one… about the trip I made with him just over a year ago in Ndop, NW Cameroon  Operation Clean Water in Ndop Recently we asked Mick to write up the story of how he got involved and how [...]

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You could buy someone fresh water for Christmas

I found this video on Eddie Arthur’s blog entitled Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Eddie reckoned it was food for thought – and I agree. It also reminded me of the work that Mick Toolin is doing on behalf of the Ndop Cluster in NW Cameroon… a project hoping to provide fresh water [...]

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Digging wells for access to the water of life…

I’ve been posting quite a wee bit recently about the Ndop water project, but here is another angle on Bible translation as well digging from friend and colleague Peter Brassington. Just as there is a lot of hard work digging wells before the fresh water appears… … so there is the hard slog of linguistic [...]

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Digging wells in Ndop

Following up on my blog about friend and colleague Mick Toolin’s recent visit to Ndop, Mick has sent me some photos of the work going on there. Mick writes… Two wells of different construction types were made, they will be operational this week. One was in Bafanji and the other in Ndop. Final arrangements for the [...]

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Water… and Trust in Tanzania

I’ve blogged about a water project in Ndop, NW Cameroon and floods in Burkina Faso – here’s a new twist on water from colleagues The Wisbeys. Then, over the sound of the engine I hear a deep rumble – either I’m very hungry or I can hear something coming. I stop and listen and there [...]

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Mick, an Irishman in Ndop, NW Cameroon

I wrote a wee while ago about a day out with Mick Toolin during my time in Ndop in February 2009. Mick Toolin from the Blackwells’ church in Dublin is here with us at the moment on his second trip, visiting all ten Ndop villages and researching how many people live in each quarter and [...]

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Retro-Blog: John in Ndop 8 – Operation Clean Water in Ndop

20 february 2009 The Ndop Team certainly do not live in linguistic ivory towers. How could they when Cameroonians elsewhere apparently sum up the Ndop Plain in the words “No development or progress”! Water has been scarce this dry season and pumps are producing less water from the Bamunka wells. A few days ago we [...]

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