tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184146285510741382024-03-13T20:59:48.314-07:00My Home in DidingaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018414628551074138.post-38124291294792663212015-04-30T06:12:00.000-07:002015-04-30T06:12:33.229-07:00Thuguru <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">For the past couple years I have been making it a practice to try and visit a few of the surrounding areas outside of Nagishot; my desire is to establish relationships and connections with people from those areas which will make it easier for future teams to come and work with the Didinga people. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">About a year ago, I found a compound with a group of elderly people. They told me that they were old and could not walk or help in the fields. I remember grinning to myself thinking, " Ah ha, a captive audience!" Over the past year I have been visiting this compound about twice a month and slowly they have become more welcoming and their children don't scream when they see us coming from a distance. The progress is real folks ;)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">Two months ago, Lisa and I were visiting this compound when Luturi (the older man on the compound) looked up to me and asked, "Can God heal me and make me walk again?" Mentally I began immediately going through a theological crisis about how to answer this question, but I replied, "Yes God can heal you, He alone is the healer but God also wants to heal your heart." At this, Luturi looked at Lisa </span><span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">and me and saying plainly, "We don't know God on this mountain; You have him </span>in Nagishot, but I am lame and can not walk there to hear... Will you teach us about God?" </div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">You can imagine Lisa's and my reactions as we rejoiced to hear a seeking heart.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">"If you can not go church, we will bring church to you," we agreed.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">Since that time, short-termer Lisa and myself, along with Lokolang, a local believer, have been going to share God's word with Luturi and his compound each Saturday. They eat up the stories with vivid enthusiasm. Sometimes it takes a while to get through the stories with the constant interruptions like, " What was Eve thinking to disobey God?!" Or misunderstandings like, "Their eyes were </span>opened...were they blind before?" And thoughts like, "This is why everything is broken and we have hunger..." </div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">It's been a truly exciting time. Lokolang and his wife Nadodo both came with us to Thuguru this last week. I don't think Lokolang's wife is a believer quite yet, but she is curious and getting close. It's also exciting to see Lokolang share his faith with His own people and relatives.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">Please pray for this area called Thuguru, that God's word would continue to go out and impact lives with joy and that the hills would be full of praise to our God!!</span></div>
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I moved!!!!! </div>
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That's right, I no longer live in a mud hut. I am pleased to announce that as of last month I now live in a fancy brick house.<br />
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Getting materials for a house in an area as remote as Nagishot takes a lot of time, work and planning. This house has been two years in the making, as bricks, cement and rocks had to be slowly gathered.<br />
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The Pontiers, a long term missionary couple with A.I.M, agreed to come live in a tent and help organize all the gathering of supplies and oversee the building project.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">The past three years I have lived in a hut. It's actually a pretty cozy place. Unfortunately though, over this past year my hut has slowly yet surely become overcrowded by unwanted visitors. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">Somewhere between a million and a quadrillion termites have moved into the thatched roof and walls, so much in fact, that I have to sleep with blankets covering my head and still, termites have to be picked out of my hair every morning.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">I'm not found of termites, they are ugly and they bite and they are presumptuous. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">Also, I have mice living in the roof of my hut yet, fortunately for me a bat also moved in about mid September. Yeah! Every night he flies in and hangs above my feet, from a string attached to the roof. He doesn't bother me that much; he respectfully keeps his distance and helps with the mouse conundrum. Only, he has terrible sleeping habits and table manners. He keeps me up all night nibbling his food and leaves poop on the floor every morning. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">So when my neighbors and co -missionaries (who live in a brick house) offered to let me live in their home while they were away on home assignment, having read the 'Three Little Pigs' I knew this was a step up, so I readily agreed!!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">Yet, living in my neighbors house has also proved a bit of a challenge. They own seven cats, not particularly because they love cats but mostly because kitty birth control is hard to come by. These cats come inside and like to bring in dead mice and leave the best of the entrails for the ants and for us to clean up every morning. They are also demanding. They require warm, yes, WARM milk every </span>morning at exactly a little before we are ready to wake up.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">Imagine seven cats, all at the top of their little cat lungs demanding milk!! I wake up and stumble my way to boil water for their milk as I make my way through the entrails and splattered blood left the night before, all covered in ants greedily </span>dragging off there portions. It's gruesome and I feel a little emotionally disturbed as I give them milk; then proceed to make my morning coffee and resist mewing back at my cat roommates.<br />
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These cats are what I might call, well evil. They tried to destroy Christmas by taking down all our decorations. Than, well, they ate Jesus! It all happened so quickly. They knocked down the Nativity and one of them took Jesus right out of his manger and ate him. ATE HIM!!!</div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">I have chickens! Yea! We got chickens because we wanted </span><u><span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; text-decoration: underline;">eggs</span><span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">.</span></u></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">... But these chickens don't really like laying eggs, at least not were we can find them. What began with four chickens has become like twenty. All because three crafty little hens decided to hide their eggs and raise a little brood of their own. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">You might think, "That's great! Chicken is a great source of meat!" I agree, when you buy it frozen in a store like a sensible chicken should be bought, but noooo, to eat chickens here, you got to chop off their heads. I watched that "Left Behind" movie they made in the 80s, the one with the guillotines and it's always turned me off to cutting off heads. What can I say? It is how it is. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">Though our chickens don't really lay eggs, they are infested with mites! A mite is a creature slightly more annoying than termites. Truth is, I have to be honest, we don't actually, really know it it's mites or bed bugs or some creature in the water? WHAT WE DO KNOW with certainty, is that every morning we wake up covered in bites and all day we scratch and scratch like a old woman with a lottery ticket. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">We've tried pouring boiling water all over the chicken coop, all our clothes and mattresses. We've used bleach, vinegar, essential oils, even a spray called "Doom" which had a skull on it! They have prevailed and we have finally surrendered our blood to be drained by a slow and itchy demise. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">We have dogs...you know those things that are super cute when they're little and you ONLY want to give the away to a "good home"? Well, we have six of those.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">They all know one trick "Come," though they only know it if you have food. Mostly they enjoy chasing kids and playing in people's wheat fields and destroying them. They are also super good at getting in front of you when you have to go to the outhouse in the middle of the night. They also like to give a loving nip on your calves as you walk.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;"> And...they like undergarments...They stole a particular item from the line and have paraded it around the compound, until the neighbor kids brought over what was left of it. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none;">One particular cow, is a regular thief. She is blind and so she can smell her way to the best dresses. She has literally fallen twice into two different latrine holes on our compound and still managed to live after being pulled out with ropes!!! Imagine how shocking it is to find a cow in your would be toilet!!!! </span></div>
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Locorro is all rascally boy! Every day he wears a green button down shirt, which having long lost its buttons, exposes his bare belly and chest. That, along with his simple cotton pants, raggedly cut off just below his knees, seems to fit his wild, free and Huckleberry Finn personality.<br />
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Locorro is a leader. He is loud, REALLY loud and determined. He is outgoing, talkative and competitive! He's the commander and disciplinarian of the boys and really most of the class. He tries to be good and always obeys me when I ask him to run around the building for misbehaving...which is a fair amount of the time. :) He does well in school and comes regularly. He definitely adds a lot of chaos in the school day, yet...it wouldn't be school without him. <br />
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Pray that Locorro would come to know Jesus.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018414628551074138.post-22784219734418489852014-11-05T05:53:00.000-08:002014-11-05T05:53:40.872-08:00A Bankrupt Heart. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few weeks ago I was having a particularly rough day. Like everything that could possibly go wrong was indeed going worse! Listen, living amongst an unreached people group can be hard. You see sin all around you. I mean really presumptuous, evil and cruel people and it's hard. It's hard being surrounded by so few believers. It's difficult working in an area for three years and not seeing much fruit from your labors. (But hey, I'm not complaining...yeah, okay I am.)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yep, I'm a missionary and I cursed at a ten year old. He didn't know what I was saying, he doesn't know English, though I'm certain he could tell I was angry. The moment I said it tears started to fill my eyes, not because I said the curse word but because at that moment that was exactly what I meant.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the following week, every morning I woke up and stared at my grass thatched ceiling with this sad overwhelming feeling. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I don't love Didinga people.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last week I heard a sermon on the parable about the man, who in the middle of the night had a visitor. He didn't have bread to feed this guest and so he went over to his neighbor and knocked at his door. "I have a visitor, please give me bread." The neighbor had already bolted his door and was in </span><span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">bed with all his children and told the man to go away. Yet, the man was persistent and knocked harder and harder. "Give me bread, you MUST give me bread!" He had a visitor and had nothing to offer, he </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NEEDED bread! Eventually because of the man's tenacity, boldness and annoyance, his neighbor got </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">up and gave him what he asked for. (See Luke 11:5-13)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I used to think that ministering to others was more like me coming to God with my debt of $200 </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">dollars. I put forth my $2.50 and ask Him to spot me the $197.50. Now I see that in actuality I don't have ANYTHING!!! Without God's Spirit, I am very presumptuous, evil and cruel.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I need God's love for Didinga, I need God's love for people, because, as much as I'd like to pretend I'm bursting at the seams with it... I'm not. This I know, God loves Didinga, He loves them so much He sent His son to die for them, for us sinners! I need that kind of love!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've been thinking about the story where Jesus goes to Peter, James and John after they had worked hard all night and caught nothing. Jesus tells them to throw out their nets into the sea and try again. Peter proceeds to tell Jesus how they had fished all night but, because Jesus said so, they would do it. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of course as the story goes, the moment their nets hit the water thousands of fish jumped into their nets until the boats almost sank.</span></div>
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Sarafina has a gentle and kind spirit. There is something about her that brings calm and order wherever she goes. When she first started school, three months ago, she couldn't put the numbers one through three in order and didn't even know how to hold a pencil. Now, she not only can write numbers one through twenty she is also on her way to reading!<br />
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skye is that student that copies everything I do and is very eager to please. Never missing a day, she is always at school or waiting for me at my house an hour before school even begins. Her eyes brighten with any compliment or praise as a wide smile spreads over her entire face. She is often raising her hand so I can look at her work and say "good job," to which she wiggles in delight.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> if I show even the slightest displeasure or correction, a look of complete doom covers her face! Skye is a student I can count on to do what I ask. She patiently listens to me and often helps me when I'm struggling for words and explanations in Didinga. She's one of my favorite students! </span></div>
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CHAPTER ONE: COMPLAINTS AND A MONKEY.</div>
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Sometimes I struggle with discouragement. I feel frustrated that the people I</div>
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realize one piece is rotten and the next thing you know the whole bunch is</div>
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inedible, and you feel like your time's been wasted and you have to start all</div>
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spirits in Thuguru (a village east of us), for my friend Fakira who lives next</div>
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door, and the pounding feet dancing away outside my hut even as I write!</div>
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I was feeling especially discouraged one morning. It was one of those days in</div>
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Suddenly, I heard a commotion. A group of children were playing, or rather</div>
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abusing, a baby monkey. I don't know why the children here like to torture</div>
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animals. They are normally sweet children but when it comes to animals they</div>
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poor creatures. It. Makes. Me. Angry! I've been known to raise a child to level</div>
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of the eyes and say, "How would you like it if I treated you the way you're</div>
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treating that puppy!" I told them to "leave the monkey alone!" One of the boys</div>
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So here I was with a whimpering, adorable, little baby in my hands. There was</div>
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After asking some questions I found out that this particular monkey (a Red</div>
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they left her with them and continued their journey. The boys pulled her tail and</div>
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threw her back and forth between them until I came out and yelled at them.</div>
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After hearing this sad story of the poor monkey and the cruelty of people, I</div>
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being Chaman. (Happy/joy) and 'ah Leelee' meaning (sad/anger/sorrow) and</div>
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just like that, I had a pet monkey who I pretty much adored! But it was more</div>
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bye monkey' and somehow in the day still trying to keep up with teaching,</div>
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dark circles under them. My fellow missionaries shook their heads as ChaLee</div>
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screamed through dinner times and I would smile at them sheepishly.</div>
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this world to enjoy, many gifts and these things can either be just a distraction</div>
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Sometimes it's the littlest things that bring the most pleasure! One of our compound dogs had six puppies a month ago. Now, there are six little tails wagging at me everyday as I come back from school and play with the little pups. Sadly, soon I will have to find them their own Didinga homes, as my budget does not allow for six hungry mouths.<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The night before Marta died, I woke up around three in the morning with her heavily on my mind. I had heard she had suddenly fallen</span> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">sick just that afternoon yet by the time I reached the clinic they had already sent her </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">home and so I decided to visit her the next </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">morning. This wasn't the first time Marta was sick, I guess I assumed it wouldn't be the last.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My head hurt and my heart ached with sadness as the women next to me wailed, "oh Marta, oh Marta! You fell sick and died...oh God, take her to heaven!!!" Someone brought out pictures of Jesus colored with cranes and </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">placed them on the grave, someone else put down some of Marta's charms </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">on the grave. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was a desperate attempt to please whatever god or spirit would listen.</span><br />
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Looking out the window delighting in God's beautiful creation in Africa!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018414628551074138.post-30355588325336128322013-12-26T10:03:00.000-08:002013-12-26T10:03:17.151-08:00I Miss YouDear Africa, <br />
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It's been 4 months since I left you. At first I was happy to go and see my home in America. Yet lately I keep dreaming of you. I hear your children laughing and...I miss you. <br />
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I miss your color. Splashes of red, purple and gold captivate my memories and I smile. <br />
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I miss your music. The fast pace beat of the drum and the emotional rhythm with clapping hands and body fully given to melody. I miss you.<br />
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I miss your Children, those dark eyes looking up at mine so deep, so full. The beautiful smiles that make my heart embrace life....I will never recover from their looks. Oh Africa, I miss you.<br />
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I miss your crazy, unpredictable nature! I never know when you will surprise me, your personal, community orientated schedule. I miss you.<br />
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I miss your dirt, that blanket that covers almost everything and paints your world in red. <br />
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I miss your noise, full of languages and activity, mooing, baaing, and clucking and song. <br />
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I miss your people, those I have grown to love and care so deeply about.<br />
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I miss you.<br />
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I will never be the same because of you and I love you.<br />
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See you next week!<br />
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Because Jesus lives,<br />
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There is something that comes over a Montana man during hunting season...I like to call it "That time of the year." The man becomes highly emotional and sensitive.<br />
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If you sat in a little café here in Plains long enough, you more than likely would see men walk in after a long day of hunting, all clad in their armor of camo and orange. They find a group already sitting around the table. "Where you been hunting?" says the one man to the next, looking away as he takes a swig of his coffee. "In the woods, you idiot!" says the other (either that or he tells a falsehood about where his favorite hunting spot is; there is a lot of heckling and lies among this crowd.)<br />
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Remember the whole, "men get over emotional during this time of the year?" Yeah, well, this also happens when another man gets a big buck while the other is still looking. Apparently, getting skunked is like dying an old maid...apparently it's sad. I was consoling a woman the other day with my new found knowledge, as she expressed concern that her son would be jealous over her other son's buck. I told her that, "It's like a girl getting married, on one hand you are angry that the girl is married and you are not, but on the other hand you're rather happy that the girl is off the market." I told her, just tell him, "The woods are open my son and you still get to look for bigger and better bucks, while your brother has filled his tag and now he just has to sit at home and cut up meat!" <br />
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I was trying to follow a conversation with two hunters the other day who were pretending to be humble. They had measuring tape out and the antlers of the white tail bucks they had killed. They were slurring out numbers, "Ahhh it's just a 122 (I really can't remember but there was a lot of numbers.) "Yeah, he's not that big, but he's all right," he says as he can hardly lift the massive tangled rack!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018414628551074138.post-5228962818478270552013-09-14T10:55:00.002-07:002013-09-14T13:49:26.845-07:00You might be going through culture shock if... Well, it has not quite been a month since I have been in the States eating meat, communicating in English and texting "lol" If I could sum it all up in one word it would be, 'crazy', absolutely crazy and wonderful, Okay, that was three I know. :) I just want to hold on to every moment of laughter, sunshine and dwell in the absolute glory of holding the hand of my little nephew.<br />
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I have my moments of finding myself outside with my tooth brush and water bottle brushing my teeth or pointing to things with my tongue (Didinga culture thing), or forgetting to flush a toilet or I'll be washing my hands for five minutes at the tap because first of all, it comes out and secondly, it comes out warm and THAT is stinking amazing! I WAS thinking "I'm readjusting to this American world pretty well!"<br />
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I'm having these moments of identity crisis where I'm walking down the street and think, "Who am I now, am I who I was before I left for Africa or am I who I became in Africa, or something all together different?"<br />
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Truth be told, since I've been back, I feel like I've been in this huge fog or like I am standing in the ocean with massive waves coming at me in quick pace and all I can do is stand firm because if one takes me down I might drown. I try to fix my mind to think clearly and help all the wonderful people around me to understand Africa, but the truth is, I don't understand Africa right now!<br />
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I have all these weird emotions of duty, pride, anger, love, hurt, joy, anticipation, fear and trust, I find myself trying to fix other people's problems because I don't know how to fix my own (Why do we do that?!).<br />
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A couple of days ago I was in the children's isle of the library reading to my Niece "Born to be a Butterfly" for young readers. Suddenly I just started tearing up, feeling so sad for the poor butterfly going through all that pain and venerability just to become a butterfly!<br />
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Tears where streaming down my face as I read to her about how the butterfly first is born an egg then becomes a caterpillar. The caterpillar get's so hungry because she needs to grow. This desire causes her to eat and eat but the more she eats the tighter her skin gets around her and eventually her skin breaks open and she has different skin, this changing skin thing happens four times before she begins to develop this hard skin that protects her inside (the cocoon), and she just hangs out for awhile. (literally)<br />
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But inside a change is happening, she finally comes out of her cocoon with her wings all wet and vulnerable there she lingers on a leaf and can not move, she can not fly she must simply wait for the sun to dry her wings and when it does, she flies off with her translucent yellow and red wings in the sunshine.<br />
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I felt a little ridiculous crying over a little children's book, but God has put such beautiful illustrations in his creation! Since I've been back from Sudan, I feel a little messed up inside, a little confused and lost but I am confident that this is just a part of the transition God is doing in my heart. Aren't most of us just a little afraid of every stage of pain and glory? Of hunger and waiting? Well, I am, and sometimes I think I most likely will come out a moth rather than a butterfly. I am so happy God knows what He's doing! That he did indeed create us to be more than we are and He will bring each transition on in it's own time.<br />
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So just wait, we may feel like little crawling things now, but one day we will be pretty glorious too.<br />
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Then, the day finally came to begin the journey. That journey which would lead me back to Montana, the place of pine trees and bluegrass music! Back to my home in Montana.</div>
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We reached Chukadum and visited with friends before the sun went down and there I had
my first meal of day with three older woman. We feasted on roasted corn
over the fire as we talked and laughed in Didinga. Then I was shown a mattress
where I curled up into a little ball and fell asleep (somehow) to the sound of
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Waking up before the sun I gathered things together and
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Sudan over bumpy and muddy roads swished in-between four people and two
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the missionary children who live there and spent the evening catching up and talking with
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After going to immigration and sorting out all my Sudan visa
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The flight took all day but finally, late that night, I
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The next day I went to the Doctor where I was poked and prodded. I found out that I've REALLY NOT been alone all this time! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Nope, </span>I have three different types of parasites (and their children) living in me. I was given a prescriptions and by now should be animal free.<br />
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The first flight was 7 hours long to Dubi, the second flight was 13 hours to Seattle and third and last flight was only 59 minutes to Spokane where I saw my parents and sister for the first time in two years!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">With tears, long hugs and flowers they greeted me and we talked the three hours to Montana, where I fell fast asleep, finally back, in my home in Montana. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018414628551074138.post-28426494123462174372013-08-16T06:58:00.000-07:002013-08-16T06:58:23.111-07:00The Last Bible Study.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The past few weeks of Bible study were truly exciting as
the chronological Bible stories finally reached their pinnacle of Jesus arrest, death,
burial and resurrection! Seeing the fulfillment of prophecy, the coming of the long
awaited Deliver from Satan, sin and death was so impactful! Jesus came and
finished what he came to do! Praise God, praise God for this most wonderful,
glorious truth!<br />
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The night after we finished the story of the Deliver’s
crucifixion, Nacorice (the faithful translator for Church and Bible Study) was
quiet around the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Catching my gaze
in his direction he looked up and said, “I’m just still thinking about Bible study.” So I
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After some time he finally looked at me and said, “I thought I knew the story of Jesus. I thought I knew, but today
I realized, I never knew! I never understood what Jesus did for me until today
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He wasn’t the only one who was richly impacted. The past three weeks of Bible study
have affected ME TOO, God’s word is so rich, so true, so wonderful! I have
come to a deeper understanding of the Good News of Jesus! Jesus came because of MY
sins, He came because of YOURS He is the the way to be free, to be forgiven. He is the way of true life. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018414628551074138.post-21542680782066404882013-07-29T00:42:00.000-07:002013-07-29T00:47:41.954-07:00Youth Night! <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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and make the popcorn on my camp stove as I hear the voices of Merafu and
Lobia already around the fire.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Youth group officially
started just three weeks ago. It’s been amazing! Many of the youth who have come are the junior counselors and
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I turn my head lamp so that I can see the notes in my Bible and begin to talk about the cost of following Christ. When Jesus
said “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men” to his disciples, they left
everything behind, gave up all, stopped living for this world and followed
Jesus. And He made them ‘fishers of men.’ Their lives radically changed from
the medial to the radical, from the necessary to survive to the purposeful life
of trust, from a life of ability and control to one of suffering and complete
reliance! To be true follower of Jesus in Didinga culture
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The hunger for God’s word among these youth, at this time,
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018414628551074138.post-29403494359409520282013-07-13T00:55:00.001-07:002013-07-13T00:55:45.616-07:00Missing words in Didinga…<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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changed their meaning or take on another meaning as new generations emerge,
such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gay, wicked or stoned</i>, while
some other words seem to disappear from our vocabulary entirely. Words are not
simply how we communicate; they are also a vital part of telling us what is
important to our culture and what is not.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I have discovered six different
words in the Didinga language for ‘carrying something on your head,’ In English
we don't even have even one, why? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because, we don’t carry things on our head,
therefore it holds no relevance to us.<br />
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For a woman in Didinga, who almost constantly is transporting something on
her head, having a word for a carrying a heavy load, or a light one, or for carrying
something for a long period of time is significant because these
words are a part of everyday life to a Didinga person.<br />
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As I have studied and asked, I have found missing words here in Didinga.
Some have little to no significance, for example there is no word for dessert
(thanks to the missionaries, it is known as ‘goody-goody’) Also, surprisingly,
there is no word for flower yet there are thousands growing wild.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">T</span>here is also no actual word for ‘ugly’
in Didinga. What does this tell me? Well, where most the world hangs great
value in clothes, hair and a slim waistline, to a Didinga person, these things are
just not as significant.<br />
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Some missing words throw us for a loop and cause a difficult time or a long
time in translation as you cannot simply say the word (as it is not there) you have
to describe it.<br />
Like the missing Didinga word for<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">faithfulness</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">. </span></i> <br />
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I discovered this missing word one day as I was telling a friend about God’s
faithfulness; he turned and translated for me but he used the word
"love." I asked him later how to say ‘faithful’ in Didinga. He said, “Just
use the Didinga word love.” However, feeling strongly that this was not a
proper translation caused me to go on a search for this word ‘faithfulness’ and
yet, I could not find it anywhere. The answer I received from everyone was
"Maybe long ago we had a word that meant this, but we have long since
forgotten it."<br />
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Coincidently, faithfulness is not only a missing word among the Didinga people;
it is also a missing concept and action. No one trusts anyone with anything!
There is a Didinga saying that goes like this, ‘Keep it in the dark, don’t tell
your wife,’ in other words don’t trust anyone and sadly, it is often said with
good reason.<br />
One of the ways I explained faithfulness to my language helper was by
explaining faithfulness in marriage (also no word for adulterer). She looked at
me and laughed, yet with sadness in her eyes and said “Impossible, I have never
met a man faithful to his wife.”<br />
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This is not simply a Didinga phenomenon, faithlessness is epidemic in the
lives of people all over the globe. Because of my Didinga ‘faithfulness’ word
search I have been studying the Old and New Testament for definitions of faithfulness.
I have come up with so many references in God’s word that it would take pages
to write down the findings, let alone what there is yet to find in its wealth.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have been challenged. </i><br />
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Am I faithful? It’s hard to tell, as time seems to be a critical test. I
look back at my life and I have been passionate, I have made huge obedient decisions
for Christ but in the every moment with unseen thoughts and behaviors have I
really loved God with all my heart, soul, mind and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>strength?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O God, refine me
so that your faithfulness is also in me!<br />
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Please pray with me that I would be faithful in every aspect of life. Pray for
faithfulness in Didinga believers, pray they would let the Holy Spirit do His
work in them and praise God for his unfailing faithfulness to the world!<br />
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<![endif]-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018414628551074138.post-54358712206242065482013-06-17T04:55:00.001-07:002013-06-17T04:55:51.443-07:00The Magnificent Wonder in Answered Prayer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-57OoYmeRpYk/Ub7awdIZOHI/AAAAAAAAAqI/fK7sQyISe5M/s1600/Mountain+Top+Camps+in+Nagishot+058.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-57OoYmeRpYk/Ub7awdIZOHI/AAAAAAAAAqI/fK7sQyISe5M/s320/Mountain+Top+Camps+in+Nagishot+058.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">ow do I <u>begin </u>to describe to you the way I feel right now? I
am so full of wonder and thanks, so full of treasures in my heart! Thank you
for praying the past month. God most assuredly answered in many specific ways. <b> </b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Colorado team:</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> I was so insanely blessed and challenged by the teams maturity in the Lord and their humble
hearts toward God and each other. They had a deep willingness to learn
and be spent in the service of Christ. They were greatly used by the
Lord and blessed Kim and my hearts greatly! We could have never have
done these camps without them...They were simply wonderful!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">1 Tim 4:12 "Don't let anyone look down of you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity" </span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicole, Ethan and Nacorice teaching.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our last meal with our Colorado group in Nairobi, Kenya</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="TitleChar" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Weather</b>:</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Being in the middle of rainy season
the possibility of rain hindering these camps was in actuality, quite inevitable. Miraculously,
for indeed it was miraculous, we had beautiful sunny days the entire first week
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second week, as farmers where complaining about their crops
drying out we were emboldened to pray more
specifically that God would hold back the rain for the teaching and allow it to
rain at night. God answered these prayers in that the rain never hindered the
teaching and yet gave enough rain at night to keep the crops alive. Our team flew out of Nagishot on Saturday and shortly thereafter the torrential
rains began. Praise God for this incredible answer to prayer!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies
themselves send down showers? No, it is you, LORD our God. Therefore our
hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this." Jer. 14:22</span></div>
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fowl stomachs, severe colds and general weariness God always provided enough strength to preform the daily duties. No one missed a single lesson, though none could not stray too far from the outhouse. :)</span></span></span></div>
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Bible camps, Kim and I were repeatedly warned that Didinga people, even those
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So, it is with a very happy
heart that I share with you the news of our incredible national participation
in both Didinga camps!!! Our translators,
junior counselors and cooks all served with their whole body, heart and
soul! In fact, after the first camp, we
had young ladies asking if they too could join the service party! <br />
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The national staff far exceeded our
expectations and anything we have ever seen in South Sudan
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see God unify our Didinga/Western team.
Whether it was playing volleyball or UNO, teaching God’s word or hiking
with heavy loads on our heads across the hillsides to camp each morning – there
was an overpowering spirit of love and harmony amongst the team. People were truly one-anothering, helping the
least of these and doing it all with an seemingly unexplainable joy.</span></span></span></div>
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many children would actually attend camp.
We were hoping and planning for up to 80 children at each camp for a
total of 160 little ones. We were
blessed with between 90 to 100 plus campers at our first camp and around 60 at
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"Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!" Ps. 96:3<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1677" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We just finished our 2nd full day of Vacation Bible Camp. We are busy, busy, busy... so, I will have to make this quick.</span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1684" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our short-term team from Colorado arrived safely and is, to say the least, amazing!!! </span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1685" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bible camp is going well - what a joy to serve!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the latest prayer points:</span><br />
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- A nasty cold is going around. I'm not feeling great myself, some of our
American short-termers are feeling physically down and our Didinga
translator is feeling weak. Pray for renewed strength. </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1697" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1697" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1690"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1689" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1369852766_0">Weather</span></b>
- The weather has been sunny and warm - absolutely beautiful! Thank you for praying! Though
we are technically in the middle of rainy season, it has not rained for
more than three weeks!!! We thank God for His provision in regards to
the weather, but also do pray for the rain to return this weekend (while
the camp is not in session). Crops are getting quite dry.</span></li>
<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1692"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1691" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Teaching</b>
- Pray that we would teach with authority and Christ's love. Pray that
God would equip each and every one of us with culturally relevant
illustrations/examples which bring God's Word to life, so that each
camper would truly grasp a hold of the truth.</span></li>
<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1694"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1693" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pray that we as "teachers", despite the craziness of the camp schedule, would live in communion with Christ - taking time for <b>individual pray</b> and <b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1369852768093_1696">devotion to the Father</b>. </span></li>
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Please pray for: Amber, Tim, Ethan, David, Nicole and Ellanah, our VBS short-term team, as they begin their almost three day series of flights to Nagishot, South Sudan!!!! <br />
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