Please pray for our Christmas outreaches this weekend. On Sunday we will be taking a Christmas party to a neighboring village. We pay for everything and they do the work of cooking and arranging things. Everyone from 3 small village is invited. We will eat, one of the missionaries will preach a Christmas sermon, we’ll have music and preaching on the loudspeakers all afternoon and then when it gets dark we will show 2 movies in Wolof. God’s Story and Magdalena. The main host village is where we have a literacy class and the teacher of the class has shown interest in the Bible. The other two villages are smaller, but apparently made up of close relatives to the main village. The exciting part is that one of the other villages is one of the rare villages that has turned down a literacy class from us because they don’t want outside influence in their village. Now they are invited to our Christmas program!
We planned to have a Christmas party with all of the various housekeepers who work in our homes. It was supposed to be yesterday, but there was a death of a near relative of one of them, so we postponed it until Monday. (A young son of a co-wife died. He had been bitten by a dog a while ago and we are pretty sure he died of rabies.)
Ajisuun, on so many levels that prayer request is from outside our culture: housekeepers, co-wives, and rabies (in humans) are all pretty much unknown here. May God continue to give you strength and wisdom to persevere.
I heard today that there is a ceasefire between the villages and they hope to work on a peace agreement in January. My coworker, who does maintenance at school, came back and found everything taken from his home.
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Please pray for our Christmas outreaches this weekend. On Sunday we will be taking a Christmas party to a neighboring village. We pay for everything and they do the work of cooking and arranging things. Everyone from 3 small village is invited. We will eat, one of the missionaries will preach a Christmas sermon, we’ll have music and preaching on the loudspeakers all afternoon and then when it gets dark we will show 2 movies in Wolof. God’s Story and Magdalena. The main host village is where we have a literacy class and the teacher of the class has shown interest in the Bible. The other two villages are smaller, but apparently made up of close relatives to the main village. The exciting part is that one of the other villages is one of the rare villages that has turned down a literacy class from us because they don’t want outside influence in their village. Now they are invited to our Christmas program!
We planned to have a Christmas party with all of the various housekeepers who work in our homes. It was supposed to be yesterday, but there was a death of a near relative of one of them, so we postponed it until Monday. (A young son of a co-wife died. He had been bitten by a dog a while ago and we are pretty sure he died of rabies.)
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We’ll be praying Ajisuun.
And thank you for the work you folks are doing there. 🙂
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Ajisuun, on so many levels that prayer request is from outside our culture: housekeepers, co-wives, and rabies (in humans) are all pretty much unknown here. May God continue to give you strength and wisdom to persevere.
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I heard today that there is a ceasefire between the villages and they hope to work on a peace agreement in January. My coworker, who does maintenance at school, came back and found everything taken from his home.
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Sorry, didn’t,t know I was anonymous on mt iPad. Jo
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What Cheryl said.
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