Hello from AFRICA!

Hey all!

Hopefully your part of the world is as happening as it is here! It is so amazing here!

This morning we went to an Bombara church service. Im kind of overwhelmed at this point in time. Just being here is an honor and confusing at the same time. I feel as if it almost isnt happening.

Just being with the church and seeing african church. Wow. Talk about culture shock. Gavin preached. They sang and prayed for us. Amazing. Im uploading pictures on facebook.

Check it.

david

And the race is on.......

11 days till our departure to Africa on the 15th of May!!!!!

wow... time has really flown.

Anyways, since school ended last week i have begun to really get more and more excited for this trip! I am ready to see how G-d is going to use us!

Anyways... yesterday we had a road rally.

This is our team... and... we basically pwned the other teams!

Check out that trophy!

-David

Africa Postcard

Bonjour!
As I am writing this we are exactly 3 weeks from our departure to Cote
d’Ivoire! Excitement keeps on growing as our team prepares. We have our tickets and
itinerary for our time. We will be working with Mike Farho at the West Africa Theological seminary, participating in work projects and showing the Jesus film in villages, and
ministering at an orphanage. I just wanted to let you know how every thing is working out and how God is providing amazing opportunities. Currently I have raised $1,400 out of $3,000 that I need to go. If you would like to help support this work please give me a call.
(402)669-0057. Thank you for your support!

Cote d’Ivoire 2008

Dear Friends and Family,

Two-thousand and eight has been a very exciting and stretching year so far. I am a junior in Creighton University’s School of Nursing and am in the midst of my clinical rotations in several Omaha hospitals which is taking up most of my free time. I am also currently involved with Christ Community Church’s children’s ministry, college ministry called “8:08,” and enjoy leading a small group on Creighton’s campus.

I have been given the opportunity to travel with our college ministry to Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa this summer. It is an exciting opportunity as our church is connected with the national church there through Mike and Sue Farho’s faithful ministry. Their ministry is mainly focused on the Lebanese population that lives in Cote d’Ivoire.

We will be traveling on May 14th to Cote d’Ivoire and returning on the 30th. While we are there we will be working with Mike and Sue Farho in several capacities.

1. Painting, praying and visiting at the West Africa Theological Seminary

2. A work project, praying, visiting and Jesus film showing at a small village

3. A work project and friendship activities at a girls orphanage

Lastly we will be doing marketplace ministry by working with people currently working in the field we are studying. In my case Mike is setting up contacts in the medical community.

Several prayer requests as we prepare and go would be:

• that God would be preparing our way and those who we will be serving
• that God will be preparing out hearts and that we would be open to His leading
• Unity within the team
• Safety during travel and while we are in country

While I am excited about this opportunity that God has given me I am also very humbled and a bit scared. I have been working through trusting God with all aspects of my life; as I find it very easy think that I can live life on my own. However, I quickly find through crisis after crisis that He is the only person who I can trust for my salvation and strength to live day to day. (Galatians 2:20-21) In this all God has been stretching me in the way of my finances as well. This trip will cost around 3,000 dollars which I am trusting God to provide. Currently I have a little over 1,400 dollars raised. I would like to ask you to pray about giving money towards this trip. The tax and giving information is enclosed.

I would love to be in contact with you and give you updates as I prepare and travel to Cote d’Ivoire. If you would like to be a part of this, email me at davidbebee@creighton.edu or check out ecuadorkid.blogspot.com for pictures and reports!

Thank you in advance for your support.

In Christ,

David Bebee

The state of the union

Hey everyone!

Just and update about whats happening lately!

I am currently a Junior in Creighton's School of Nursing and really having a great time!

This up and coming summer I have the opportunity to go to Mali West Africa.

More Details coming up when available!

david

david is safely home from ecuador

HEY ALL!!!!
im back from ecuador after a gueling 20 hour day... ugh.... ive gotten 12 hours of sleep in the last 96.... which makes me a bit sleep deprived... and so i will sleep in tomorrow.....

feel free to give me a call some time.. thursday or friday or next week..... cause i should be free most of the days or evenings at least!!!! ok?

cell 669-0057

im out like a trout.... ill put together a summary of my time in ecuador and email it out... pictures and all... or maybe ill have a cookout....hmmmm.... potluck type thing maybe so i can share stories photos and souveniers with everyone??

let me know what you think.... do it!!!! now!


-david

One last look at Ecuador!

Hey all!!!!

i hope your summer is going well!

i am currently sitting in my room in quito packing up my bags for my 640am flight tomorrow! these last 6 weeks have flown by and i am just tryinig to tie up some loose ends before i head back to the states.

this last week and a half has been pretty cool as i have traveled to shell and back.

we traveled down the friday before last and did some tourist things. we toured a old plantation, ate mora icecream, saw the volcanos tunguragua, cotopaxi, and sanguay, took a cable car over a waterfall, and visited a balsa wood store.

when we got down to shell we toured the Alas de Socorro (Ecuadorian Mission Aviation Fellowship) hangar and the HCJB Hospital Vozandes. We also got a tour of the house that Nate Saint built and lived in while he worked here in ecuador which was amazing!

it really boggles your mind when you show up to a spot that youve heard so much about growing up, a place with so much history and spiritual significance in the flow of time. just seeing it was pretty amazing. seeing his house, the runway, and his legacy. we also heard all sorts of stories about him and other missionaries that have given to the cause of christ.

one story as related by Fred Schmidt (the MAF missionary i am staying with, who also grew up in shell ecuador) was about those men who killed nate saint and the rest. within the last few years mincaye has been traveling and talking about his experience. while listening to some music with the people he is traveling with, he suddenly got very silent and then excited and said, "thats what we heard!" however he was not understood. when the song was played again he said "thats what we heard when it happened!" later, at a church he was talking at he saw the choir and then got excited again saying, "thats what we saw" appearently while the killings were happening the saw and heard these beings,possibly angels, and immediately afterward ran and hid farway in the jungle because they realized what they did was wrong and were afraid of these beings who were in the air! when asked why they didnt tell anyone they replied that they were afriad that everyone would think that they were crazy!

wow.

anyways, there were many other stories and amzing times. wow again.

so i worked at the hospital with a nurse while i was down there which was very interesting! they definitely do not do things the way we do in the states!!!! man o man.

so i helped with 2 endoscopes which was an experience in and of itself! so, the girl comes in and they give her a sedative, but they dont have enough of the right equipment to put her completely out, moniters and such, so they leave her semiconsious while they shove this tube down her throat!!!!! so here i am holding her hands, with my one elbow holding her hip and the other hand holding her shoulder so she cant move and fight!!! ha! what a good time! man was that interesting! but i got to see a scope done and see the insides of some people.

i also helped by doing vital signs for the nurses and changing beds, which leads to another interesting story. so here i am cleaning a bed with this cleaning agent and the nurse asks me if i know what im using, and i of course say no. she turns and smiles at me and says..... "moon shine" apperently buying a high proof sugarcane RUM is cheaper than a regular bleach or other antiseptic! ha!

anyways, there are many more stories that i can tell when i get back.

here are some of the pictures for the week

http://creighton.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2035085&l=059a5&id=32504808

im flying back to omaha on delta flight 4509 and should get in at 8:24pm on wednesday night.

allrighty then

i will see yall soon

-david