The Pfenniger Family
Togo, West Africa
The Pfennigers are a missionary family studying french and planning on serving at HBB (Hôpital Baptiste Biblique) in Togo, West Africa as full-time missionaries with ABWE.
HBB is a medical-surgical hospital that provides outpatient and inpatient care for roughly 16,000 patients a year that includes 2,200 inpatient and 1,000 surgeries. Up until the summer of 2021, HBB also provided OB care that included 600 delivers a year. However, secondary to a lack of OB providers, HBB had to close the OB program.
In returning to HBB, the Pfennigers have been asked to reopen the OB service. Their goal is not simply to re-open OB, but to create an in-house midwife training program that will be part of a long-term solution of not only training OB providers but also providing God-centered OB care and brining glory to God’s name.
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Ministry Updates & Prayer Requests
Praises for:
- Continued contacts our kids are having with their friends in Fort Wayne through a multitude of internet communication platforms.
- The 950-square-foot apartment that we have in Sherbrooke and for how we, as a family, are adjusting to it.
- That the kids were accepted and able to eventually start in the English-speaking public schools in Sherbrooke. (We were unsure for 3 weeks of what was going to happen.)
- A French church that we are attending on Sundays and an English youth program that the kids are attending during the week.
Prayers for:
- That Fred and Lydia will be able learn French well.
- That Lydia will find a Bible study group to join (as we strongly feel studying the Word is better done with someone than alone).
- The kids, their continued adjustments to their new schools, their learning, and their being able to make friends. (It is a very different and sometimes hard environment from that of a Christian school.)
- For Noah and help in French learning.
- For Noémi as she is moved to a 2nd grade class and adjusts to a new teacher & class (again) -for friends and a good environment.
- For our friends, colleagues and acquaintances who are suffering.
- Togo, Hôpital Baptiste Biblique –the team, the vision project that will expand the hospital from 50 to 75+ beds, the new FP/OB and the growing of the OB service.
- The people of Sherbrooke and Quebec – the ministry of PDV and the local churches in sharing the message of Christ and any role that God might open up for us here in that.
- The safety and wisdom of our colleagues at ABWE’s northern hospital in Togo as there are increasing safety concerns which is/will be straining manpower.
- Prayer and Praise that our financial needs are being met.