Missionaries to Congo!
Welcome
to our Congo pages! We are glad you’ve come to our website for
more information on what Jay, Crystal and the kids have been up to
in Congo. In short,
we spent two years (Feb 2003 - Jan 2005) as missionaries in the
Republic of Congo, working as part
of a team
which
is
opening
the
nation’s
first-ever Christian hospital.
On this website, you’ll find lots of photos and background information about the project and our family’s involvement there, as well as links to other websites for further information.
Thank you for visiting!
"The courageous don’t live forever, but the timid never live at all." --Unknown
Current Information
Labeled Aerial Photo of the Hospital Grounds (April 2004 - makes a great bulletin board poster!)
Dr. Joe and Becky Harvey (leaders of the hospital project)
Vandevoorde Family Website (look at their photo gallery for some recent photos)
New River Community Church (our home church in Connecticut)
Global Outreach Mission (mission organization that is sending us)
Republic of Congo on Wikipedia (general information on the Republic of Congo)
Weather Underground (a boring and imprecise Internet weather forcast for Impfondo. Summary: "hot and humid with a chance of rain")
Photos from Ken and Judy Landrud - Nov 2003
May 9, 2003 - Accurate to-Scale Drawing of the Hospital Site
February 2003 letter - The Van Achterbergs Arrive in CONGO
More background information from before we left...
Jay’s trip to Congo - October 2002
Impfondo, Northern Congo: God’s invitation to finish the job? A report by Dr. David Thompson, missionary doctor in Gabon
Congo Area | jayandcrystal.com