The Kees in Cameroon
Mission Cameroon
Paul & Janet Kee
W. Paul and Janet M. Kee are the only missionaries for the Church of Christ living in Cameroon. They have been working there full-time since 1976. Paul spent 3 years in Cameroon before that, starting in 1967 with his parents, and including 4 summers as an apprentice in the 1970s. The Kees raised their children, Malena and Ryan, in Cameroon and home-schooled them through high school.
Cameroon Report -JOTS FROM JANET
15th April 2011
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Well, all I can say is: THAT is the only way to tavel over here! My helicopter trip took less than 20 SMOOTH minutes, whereas, it took Paul a ROUGH nearly 4 hours over terrible roads to go to the same place! What we really need to do is raise money to fly EVERY WHERE, instead of paying for the gas and upkeep of the Chevrolet. Just imagine, we could fly to Douala where we enter the country and where we do our cold food shopping (9 housr hard driving and much more dangerous) and back in the same day, save money on hotels, food, and our discomfort! (hint, hint).
I almost felt I had not been out of town at all! Kiven, my helper, and I arrived at Abachi nice and fresh
and rested. I took a video of most of the flight until the white harmaton (dust from the desert 
made it useless to
ty to see anything clearly, the further north we got, through the camera lens. But it was safe enough for the
pilot. Using the GPS coordinates which Paul gave him, we zeroed right in to the school field where Paul and
other brothers and sisters were waiting, with about another one hundred and fifty people who seemed to have
come out of the wood work. They all started clapping when we touched down, got their faces blown full of dry
grass from the rotors, and before we had our feet on the ground, we were surrounded by all of them welcoming
us. I felt like a Hollywood celebrity!
With such a crowd, drawn by their frst sight of a helicopter, Paul could not resist the opportunity to preach the gospel (as was planned). So for about 30 minutes there was more or less a captive audience, then the helicopter left, to come back in three days to carry me back home.
It was a very busy three days. After we were shown our sleeping quarters, a mud brick room with a tin
roof (Kiven's had a
thatch roof, which is much cooler) we got settled in, had lunch of fufu corn and hot pepper
soup, Paul and I rested (I actually went over my lesson for my women's class.) I went back to the school
house and taught my lesson on Prayer to about 30 to 40 women. Meanwhile, Paul was having a men's class.
Getting toward dark, they tried to get the generator going so we could have lights. It worked all of l0 minutes.
I had about 15 to 20 kids staring at me, so I sat down in a chair opposite them sitting on small stones and the
dirt veranda of my room. I taught them songs of "Baby Jesus", "Baby Moses'', and "Little Boy David", with
some explanations of the stories. I told them that if they came to Sunday School I would show them pictures
of those stories. [Full Report: PDF
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