Allan and Mandy Caley

Nadege-This 5 year old girl needs your help please. She sits all day long on this potty chair. I am trying to think of ways to help her. Thanks.

Allan and Mandy Caley — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:58:22 +0000

Jeneba, N’to and I in the village :)

Allan and Mandy Caley — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:38:35 +0000

Andrew’s friend N’to and I [ N'to is a common name !]

Allan and Mandy Caley — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:37:10 +0000

We ate the same lunch every day in the village

Allan and Mandy Caley — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:33:41 +0000

Rice and sauce

Allan and Mandy Caley — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:31:47 +0000

Back Home in England

Allan and Mandy Caley — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:56:06 +0000

I had an excellent time in the Ivory Coast. I arrived in the capital city in the evening, and thankfully was met by a couple from another mission group who took me all the way North in their vehicle. The country is in recovery after the terrible troubles they have endured since 2002. It was so good to experience the optimism and to see the actual mending of things that had been broken in all areas of life.

I was able to go into the village with my dear co-worker who was also there without her husband at this time. She worked hard on translation checking as I worked on literacy. It was tremendous to see Palaka people committed to their brothers and sisters as they encouraged each other to read and to write their own language. I had taken printed Gospel passages from Scripture as well as portions of Genesis and Exodus, some New Testament portions and the books of Jonah and Ruth. We were keen to interest the Palaka people who could already read French this time and it was a great success. The night class we ran in Ferke for 3 nights was a thrill as we saw young men and women being able to enjoy reading the scripture in their own language.

In the capital city the group of Palaka we met with representing many different villages really appreciated the effort and work that had gone into the production of so much literature and the reading books and Bible booklets were snapped up as soon as we laid them out on the tables. Many were helped in the villages with medical needs and development ideas, with literacy too as several new teachers were trained. Jean-Baptiste and others worked hard to impart their teaching expertise.

As I write there is a translation final check being done on Matthew which God willing will be ready to print and sent out in the summer for the Palaka believers to read.

THANKS to you who have prayed and helped with all of this.

News From Mandy in Ivory Coast

Allan and Mandy Caley — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:18:37 +0000

Wow- what a whirlwind trip this has been to the Palaka people in the North of Ivory Coast. We spent 8 nights in the village and now are back in Ferke. The last night out there was the special all night church service memorial for Verne’s dear mother Jean Johnson, whom, as you heard, went to be with the Lord on January 3rd. It went well with much singing, Bible readings, and preaching – and a lot of circle dancing too.
Denny has been able to get a lot done on the translation, all of Acts was checked with a team of people from the village where we lived, Matthew is ready to be final-checked with a consultant and Ephesians is well under way too. Denny and I with some of the village believers visited Jo [ they are now on lesson 44 of Chronological teaching, last week was Zacharias and Elizabeth ] and Lam 3. Lam 3 actually has a church building that a group of ladies from the Baptist church in Ferke had built for them. It still needs doors, windows and plastering, but they are already using it anyway.
Literacy went well- a new teacher was trained from another village [Gandjawa- he is a young man who was befriended by Seth when he was out there a few years ago] and the newer ones from ‘our’ village were in on the session for a refresher in how to teach. We had 3 really good nights in Ferke with a group of people who could already read in French who wanted to read in Palaka. Jean-Baptiste did a great job of guiding them through the 3 Primer reading books. At the weekend we will be in Abidjan with a group of Palaka people who live there to greet them and to introduce them to Palaka literature and Bible books too.
I made an appointment and visited the Prefet [Prefect] of Ferke and then Denny and I visited the Sous-Prefet too who is out closer to the village. We presented them with the materials we use for literacy so that they know what is going on. We were warmly received.
Yesterday was market day here and the town here fills up with people from all over the region. We had many visitors with many needs, the day passed with much prayer about how to help so many people.
Today we will head off to the south where we will spend the weekend and then the translation checker Paul arrives on Monday, and the check begins with him in full jet lag on Tuesday! Sibiri and Daniel are the two who will be working alongside Denny for the check. I will be able to be there for the first day of checking as I fly back on Tuesday evening, and will get home to North Cotes on Wednesday at about midnight. I have a long layover on the way.
We have heard some terrible stories about things that happened in the troubles, but local people here are very encouraged with how the country is making progress after those difficult years.
Thank you so much for praying. Everyone here greets you
MUCH love and God bless
Mandy, out here- on a very sunny day

NEW SEMESTER Fall 2011

Allan and Mandy Caley — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:44:21 +0000

Thank you so much for your love and help - U R so precious to us.

Here are some pictures of our summer- here is me on an outreach to kids in Whitby where I grew up – I was on the team for a week.

AND then….>

>….. we went to our friends’ son’s wedding in Bavaria, Germany, a lovely occasion. He married a young lady from Germany who worked with me in the Nursery two years ago.

And finally here are Verne and Denny Johnson who spent the summer in Sefognekaha doing Bible translation and encouraging the believers there. The struggle in the country is over now and life is slowly starting to get back to some kind of normality. A long process of recovery.
Allan and I plan to visit out there again in 2012.

We send you love and greetings from us here at the EURO Bible School and Missions Training Centre. Term begins on Monday, and there are 69 students this term. Mandy will be caring for 14 very young children and Allan is in charge of many different areas and also teaching this year- beginning with classes on Pre-evangelism and then Animism. Andrew is in his last year of college. Paige and Faye are moving here with us this year too.
God bless and have a good Fall.

Still in School

Allan and Mandy Caley — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:07:42 +0000

Andrew went fishing with Joy and her boyfriend last weekend

Well, I know it is the summer for all of you guys across the ‘Pond’- but for us in UK it is business as usual, and Graduation is not until July 21st here at NTM’s Missions Training where we serve !!

Missions Course students are in Mission Simulation Camp for 5 weeks, living in tents- ‘cut off’ from ‘normal’ life. Allan and I lived down there with them for the first days after set up.

We just had a really good NTM weekend here with over 250 in attendance, great ministry and sharing from folks who are ministering around the world with NTM.

Our kids are doing well. Faye [with Paige] is in her final 6 months of a Nursing degree. Joy teaches overseas students to speak English in York, and has recently been promoted. Andrew is finishing up his third year of studies at Lincolnshire Rural Activities Center. He has one more year to go before he will get his qualifications in Equestrian Care and Functional Skills. He has already completed a Catering Course there in these 3 years since we came back from the States. He still loves to fish and caught a big one last weekend.

Our dear friends Verne and Denny Johnson are headed back out to the Ivory Coast for another 8 weeks this summer to work on the books of Matthew and Acts. They will inevitably be involved in emergency medical care and famine relief at this time of year, especially after the terrible troubles that have been happening out there. Verne will also be doing work on development projects too.

They would appreciate your prayers for wisdom and safety. The vehicle that they have been using to get around out there is in need of major work each summer they go. They will be involved in literacy work and outreaches to other villages.
We are planning to go out there for a visit in December 2012 God willing.

Thank you so much for praying and helping the Palaka team and us all, as we serve in training others to go out to reach the Least Reached Peoples of the World with the Gospel

Believers in Other Villages

Allan and Mandy Caley — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:05:02 +0000

Ladies from that other village

This week we spoke on the phone to Eric from the Palaka village where we lived, and he was very happy about the fact that the whole church had walked to ‘L. Three’ 2 weeks ago to ‘have church’ with the new believers there- so good to hear that.
In the summer Mandy walked to see a very old lady in a village about 3 hours from where we were with 2 Palaka women to share the Gospel, a request from her son who is not a believer yet- but may be now! Well Eric told us that she passed away last week and her son [the chief of the village actually] asked the Palaka church to do a Christian burial for her, which they did. Eric said it was a really wonderful time and the whole village was there. The people in that place have only 7 more lessons to go in the whole Chronological teaching. It is so encouraging to hear about the 2 outreaches to these villages and to hear the outcome too. Thank you Lord.
This week I lost one of my best helpers from the Nursery- she decided to leave us- and as they are volunteers we could do nothing but let her go- we really need a replacement for her until July. Please pray that we find someone.
We have a Residential Conference here at NTM in June- go to the ntm.org.uk website for details, also there is an awesome Youth Conference planned for April 1-3, it will be a bit far for those of you across the Pond, but anyone reading this from Europe can come on over