Kabiye Team News
November 6, 2005

Team Update

This week our team celebrated the change in season (wet to dry) with a ‘Harvest Party’. We all enjoyed games, tasty treats and performances by the Kindergarten and 2nd grade classes. Also, David and Matt have traveled to Rwanda for a 2-week survey trip. Please pray for a safe and successful trip. The Kabiye team is currently working with 19 churches and 3 teaching points throughout Kabiyeland.

Reeves Family Update - kabiye4christ@yahoo.fr

This week has been both challenging and blessed for our family. We want to thank all of you who have been praying for Hannah this past week. She seems to be completely recovered and back to her sweet dramatic self! On Monday at around noon we left for the Baptist hospital in Tchico (a 5 hour drive to the south) to get Hannah checked out by the pediatrician there. The Rieses kept Gabe and Elijah for us here in Kara, for which we were extremely grateful. Soon after we arrived, our suspicions were confirmed that she was pretty dehydrated from her 8 days of high fevers and bad diarrhea. We also found out that not only had she had malaria with the yucky virus that's been circulating here in Kara and among our team, but she also had intestinal amoebas and bacterial dysentery. No wonder she was so sick! After 24 hours of IV fluids, she was doing much better and even felt like eating the next day (for the first time in more than a week!) Bryan and Matt picked up Dave on Tuesday afternoon on their way to Ghana so Dave could make his flight to Rwanda and Becky drove back to Kara with Hannah on Wednesday morning. We are so thankful for Dr. Ebersol, the compassionate and competent pediatrician at the ABWE hospital in Tchico and for all of your many prayers. The Lord be praised for His grace towards us!

We celebrated Gabriel's 2nd birthday this past Saturday in conjunction with our team's harvest hoedown party. He has such a joyful spirit and we praise God for the past two years of his life and the sweetness he has brought to ours! Please pray for him as he has a pretty good fever right now from the virus that's finally made its way to him, and possibly Elijah, too.

David has arrived in Rwanda, along with our teammate Matt and Murphy Crowson and Marty Koonce, both from the Tabligbo team. Please pray for them as they spend the next week and a half surveying different parts of Rwanda for potential future mission teams who God will call to minister in this war-torn country. David plans to arrive back in Kara on the 19th and his wife and children eagerly await his return!

Becky also started co-teaching the kindergarteners on our team this past week and had a great first day! She is looking forward to teaching, along with Andrea, our bright young men for the remainder of the school year. Thank you for all of your prayers and love. We feel them and praise God for each of you!