Mission updates and prayer requests from One Africa Team
Weather-wise and food-wise, some like it hot. Liberia is just the place for both. This smallish West-African country is part of the “Pepper Coast,” so named for the Malagueta Pepper. It’s prevalent up and down the coast and it’s piping hot! These elongated fire hazards scorch like the November sun sizzling the country. Doesn’t take much at all to burn the tip of your tongue or the back of your throat.
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Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 2 Tim. 2:15
In many places, the pastors of the LCCA are the most educated men in their locales. People living in rural communities attend primary school but most leave secondary school before receiving their diploma. Churches offer Sunday School for children and Confirmation Instruction for Adults who want to become members, but it is difficult for pastors to conduct advanced Bible Classes because each pastor is responsible for 3-6 congregations.
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What do 10-year-olds in rural South Dakota know about Africa? Probably what a textbook or teacher has taught him or her. Probably that there are seven continents, and Africa is one of them. If they attend a WELS grade school, perhaps they know that there are missionaries in Africa. A 10-year-old South Dakotan would probably do better at telling you how to operate a combine than how to locate either Malawi or Cameroon on a map.
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