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Stephen Paul Jones, 1950–2001 Died 6:45 AM, Saturday, 3 November 2001 at MRC of Cerebral Malaria Buried 7 November 2001, Bird Safari Camp, Janjanbureh, The Gambia The pages linked below describe the most unusual and possibly most memorable funeral of my life at that point. It is certainly the most unique funeral I have ever …
Gambia Mission Trip Journal, November 2009 October 31, 2009 – At Home I’m starting the journal again. There seems to be a juncture of many things in my life happening right now. 1. I felt lead into this Jahanka-Gambia Partnership I am calling it. Things have started slow with few participants, making me a …
August 2-4, 2001, Charlie Doggett & Ismaila Bojang on Jola Prayer Walk A Daily Journal Thursday, 2 August 2001 – Kanoli – Ismaila Bojang, my only Christian watchman, traveled rough roads with me to our first village, Kanoli, the home village of our Gambian President Jammeh. We checked into the Sindola Safari Lodge and waited until …
Weekends as Tarzan in My Place of Escape (2000-2002) Being Business Facilitator for a little mission in West Africa at first sounded easy or possibly boring. The number of missionaries I served averaged around 24 with the children, and it was mostly their business matters I took care of: the budget, bills, home school materials, …
Here I sit with the men of Ballen, a Jola village along the south bank of the River Gambia near the Senegalese Casamance border. This is Ismaila Bojang’s home village and he made this photo. He was my favorite worker in Fajara and my interpreter on this prayer walking trip. See “The Miracle Leaf Story” …
I finally finished reading Oliver Twist and I must say that it is a very good book even if too long, with a whole lot more to it than the familiar story of Oliver from several movies. There are so many undercurrent stories of the adults involved in Oliver’s life that the movies barely touch …
Here are several biographies or stories of my life from little one-page accounts to a series of 4 photo books. So how much do you want to know? It seems that many life stories don’t hold a lot of interest until after a person is dead, so if that is the case, I’m prepared for …
“Doing good does us good.” ― Arthur P. Ciaramicoli I had a YouTube video linked her that I did for the School Tutoring Program but it has since been removed from YouTube. Volunteering may be the most powerful thing most of us do in almost all places and societies. The subpages are about some of my more …
NOTE: When I returned from The Gambia I thought I might need this in case I wanted a job but really never needed it, not wanting another official job. It is similar to the resume I had in 1999 when actually looking for a job, just one more position added to it, the Gambia experience. …
Charlie Doggett A Confidential Autobiography for International Mission Board, SBC 1999 (The structure makes this bio obviously a form filled in for the IMB, but I like it and glad I saved it for personal history.) I. Family and Childhood History Born on the 4th of July, 1940, my granduncle was the delivering doctor and …