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Welcome to Illuminating the Word! We are now back in the U.S. after serving our first term overseas in the Republic of Congo. This site contains more than 5 years worth of blog entries, photos and newsletters, and covers topics like our daily life, our work, vacations and more. We hope that you enjoy this glimpse into our lives. Jeremy & Sara Brown
Our trip to Dolisie went well. We met with several church leaders (Salvation Army, Evangelical Church of Congo, Greek Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, independent churches) as well as representatives from the Congolese Bible Society. Most of them were receptive and excited at the prospect of reprinting the New Testament in Kituba. They're also interested in what could be done to start work on a translation of the Old Testament in Kituba. We're thankful that God protected us during our travels, and protected Sara and Perrin at home. Pray that God will bless the work in the Kituba language, making possible a reprinting of the New Testament, and a translation of the Old Testament. Here are some photos from our trip. -Jeremy
While I'm traveling (by plane), Sara and Perrin will be staying at home. Please pray for a safe trip for the 4 of us who are going, and that Sara and Perrin will be fine in Brazzaville. (In other news, we haven't posted anything on the blog in 3 weeks. Apparently, taking care of just one baby takes a lot of time. Perrin has started crawling (all over the house now) and so we've been baby-proofing and baby-chasing a lot lately. He also stands up holding onto the couch, and even lets go for a few seconds before falling on his rear. He also likes testing his teeth on anything he can get in his mouth, including us!) -Jeremy
The Parkers originally arrived in Brazzaville in March of 2011 just a week before we left to go home for furlough. We conducted part of their orientation to living in Congo. When they arrived last year, they only had 3 kids, but they were expecting another, and their fourth child was born last year here in Congo. He's a couple of months younger than Perrin. For the past year, they were living in the port city of Pointe-Noire. But now they have moved back to Brazzaville to live on the SIL center. Sara is excited to have another mom living on the center, and we're hoping Perrin and the Parker's youngest boy will have fun playing together. -Jeremy
It's difficult to know who and how to help. Our colleague Angi suggested that we provide some food for the people in our church who are currently displaced. She made peanut butter oatmeal bars and we brought hard-boiled eggs and rolls which we handed out to about 40 people. One meal is a nice gesture, but it doesn't really go very far. Please pray for the church as we explore together what we can do for the members of our congregation who are in need. 
Sara with the hard-boiled eggs and rolls 
The shock wave from the explosions slammed into the church's roof with enough force to rip the rafters in half. 
Other missionaries sent spare clothes along to hand out to people who needed them. 
This was Perrin's first trip to church since we've been back, and everybody wanted to hold him. -Sara
I didn't see much damage on the way from the airport to our apartment, but on Monday, when I went to the grocery store we shop at, all its brand new windows (just a year old) were blown out and have been replaced with plywood. Sunday night at our Sing-and-Share time, we heard stories from people about what they and people they knew had experienced, and then prayed for the city and victims who have lost their homes, loved ones, or health because of the accident. There are thousands of people camped out on the ground at the cathedral and its grounds that are just a couple of blocks up the hill from our apartment. We met with our friend Mama Yoyo on Monday, and heard her story of escape. Her house partially collapsed, and she fled with her son, tying his arm to her arm with a piece of cloth, since children were running away from even their parents in the midst of their fear. They saw dead people lying in the streets as they fled. She says she is suffering from sings of post traumatic stress, such as trembling, difficulty paying attention to what she is doing, insomnia, and vividly reliving the experience. We prayed with her, and we ask for you to pray for her and others like her who have been through an experience they say was worse than the civil war here. We've continued working on getting our apartment set up here. We put the hexagon shelves back together and have been continuing to unpack things, get our laundry washed, our kitchen utensils and dishes washed, etc. Perrin turned eight months old yesterday! I've spent yesterday and this morningg with several others going over the project list and budget for 2013, since that needs to be submitted by the end of the month. There is still a bit to review before we're done. -Jeremy
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