Volume 1, Issue 6 December 2008

If I then, your
Lord and Teacher,
have washed your
FAY FOOTPRINTS

John 13:14-15
feet, you also ought
to wash one an-
other’s feet. For I
Lutheran Bible Translators have given you an
example, that you
also should do just
For our last newsletter of 2008, we reflect back on the year in a series of “Top 10” as I have done to
lists. We hope your year has been a blessed one, as well, and that you have a joyous you.
Christmas season!

10 changes in 2008 (in chronological order):

1) We officially became missionaries with LBT!
2) Sam learned to walk and then run…
3) We finished initial coursework in Dallas. • Praise God for the wonderful
4) We said goodbye to friends in Dallas and met lots of new ones in Michigan, Indiana, relationships cultivated and
Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas.
5) We learned that we’ll soon be a family of four! (Oh, and Sam is getting a cousin!). the overall response we have
6) Sam learned to make bigger messes, play pretend, and do chores (throw things in the received from the churches
trash and put toys back). and individuals we have al-
7) Kory got glasses so he can see a little better when he’s on the road.
8) Cara chopped her hair off 11” to give to locks of love. ready visited.
9) Sam’s English vocabulary increased from 2 words to about 50. His parents increased
their French vocabulary by a couple of hundred words. • Pray for a healthy pregnancy
10) We’ve spent more time with family and old friends while we stay for a couple of for Cara.

Pray For Us...

weeks/months at a time near (or with!) various folks.
• Pray for us as we travel, that
Top 10 PD moments (in no particular order):
PD, by the way, is short for partnership development, which involves speaking to we would go/share/do as He
churches, Bible studies, etc. If you’d like us to visit your church, let us know! leads.
1) Getting lost on our way to our very first presentation and arriving 5 minutes before
the service, instead of 20 minutes, which was the original plan. • Pray for our French language
2) Trying to give a presentation while Sam stood behind us and played peek-a-boo with
the Bible study class. learning, that we would have
3) Watching Sam help, in his own way, by smiling up a storm and shaking hands. increased motivation even
4) Hearing gasps from the crowd when they realize the great need for Bible translation. though it may be several
5) Meeting young people who also feel called to missions.
6) Receiving the generous hospitality of strangers and friends, time and time again.
months before we begin formal
7) Q & A time– we love answering questions, even if we don’t always know the an- schooling in France.
swers! It’s fun talking about what you want to talk about.
8) Becoming so comfortable with our presentation that the nervousness has basically • Pray that more people will
worn off and all that’s left is excitement! consider this ministry not just
9) Going to the front of a church to be introduced and having Sam yell out “Hot! Hot!”
repeatedly while pointing at lit candles. ours but theirs, as well.
10) Receiving so many encouraging words, both in person and through email. Your
prayers keep us going.

The Top 5 Sam moments:

5) Sam’s favorite baby sitter is whoever is mowing the lawn. It’s mesmerizing.
4) One week, while Cara’s parents were on vacation, Sam missed the ritual of kissing
moe-ma and papa goodnight, so he found his picture book (his own idea) and kissed
their pictures instead.
3) He had his own pumpkin this year and after Halloween we decided that it would be
fun to let him smash it on the porch. Afterward, we told him the pumpkin broke and he
helped put it in the trash. Ever since then, whenever he sees a pumpkin, he announces:
“Boke. Chash” (Translation: Broke. Trash.)
2) Learning to pray… from holding out his hands to hold ours, to saying “amem”, to
babbling while someone else prays, to crying when Kory forgot to say his nighttime
prayer and calming instantly when he remembered.
1) Cara: What does a cow say? Sam: ooooo C: What does a dog say? S: Woof C: What
does a cat say? S: Oww C: What does Dada say? S: No no no. Don’t touch.” Making new friends

Cameroonian Food
If you study different cultures around
the world, you will notice that like the
United States, most include food as a
major part of their celebrations. Since
this is the holiday season, we thought
we’d share a bit about what Cameroo-
nians eat!
Once again, Cameroon lives up to the
name “Africa in miniature” when it
comes to food. There are many differ-
ent staples depending on where you are
in the country, so we’ll share some of
the things we ate at a West African res-
taurant in Dallas where both owners
were from Cameroon and at a lunch
made by Pam Maxey, an LBT mission-
ary who served in Cameroon for 12
years.
The dish that serves as the base of the
meal (similar to rice or pasta or bread) is
fufu (pronounced foo-foo) or couscous
(“coos-coos”… not the same as the
round rice-like grain that you find at
the grocery store). It is made of cassava
(a root plant) that has been boiled,
dried, and ground into a flour. Water is
then added to make a paste and it’s
rolled into balls. Theoretically, you are
supposed to swallow them without
chewing. They are very bland, cheap,
and filling.
The couscous is usually topped with
some sort of sauce, the most common
being Ndolé (pronounced nn-doe-lay).
It is made with bitterleaf or some sort of
Write to us at:
Kory, Cara, and Samuel Fay
848 Balroyal Ct.
Indianapolis, IN 46234
kcfay@lbt.org
www.fayfootprints.com
Partnership Update
As you can probably tell from the
front of this newsletter, we have felt
incredibly blessed during this time of
partnership development. We have
raw green (spinach, kale, etc.), ground
peanuts, seasonings, meat (fish is often
loved getting to meet so many peo-
used), chicken broth, various peppers, ple, hear their stories, and see them
and tomatoes. When we first heard get excited about Bible translation!
what was in it, we were a little skepti- We are blessed to have so many of
cal, but it tastes wonderful!
Our favorite food, of the ones we’ve
you praying for us and to receive
tried, has definitely been fried plan- your donations. However, we are
tains, also known as dodo (“doe doe”). always looking for more partners! If
They look like very large bananas and you are looking for a way to tithe in
you can find them in most grocery
the coming year, please ask the Lord
stores here in the U.S. They are sliced
and fried in oil. They are a little bit if He would have you give toward this
sweet and taste like a hybrid of carrot, ministry. We have about 25% of our
potato, and banana, so they taste great ministry expenses coming in each
covered in the aforementioned sauce or
month and we need 100% before we
plain with a dash of salt. Pictured
above are each of the foods: dodo, cous- can leave in August. If He is not
cous, and ndolé with uncut plantains. leading you to give regularly but you
would like to give in some way, con-
In His Love,
sider giving to our household set-up
Kory, Cara, and Sam
project which will help us buy things
we need for our house in Cameroon
(furniture and so on). We currently
have $2,682 toward our goal of
$10,000 for that project. Thank you,
thank you, thank you for your gener-
osity!
The mission of
LBT is to help
bring people to
faith in Jesus
Christ by making
the Word of God
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