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Did you know that at the Lord’s Supper, Jesus gave his disciples “banana bread” and “beer”?

If someone in America said you were “soft in the head,” you’d think they were insulting you. However, in Central Africa they are giving you a compliment because of your ability to learn things quickly.

If you “shiver in your liver” you might think you need a blood transfusion. Among the Uduk people of the Sudan however, “to shiver in your liver” means “to worry.” Likewise, if “my stomach sits with you” it doesn’t mean that I need to hit the gym. That’s how the aboriginal people of Australia say, “I believe you.” Continue reading “Crossing the River Twice”

“We are home,” she told me.

I asked the wife of one of our expatriate African missionaries, “What do you look forward to about going home?” I asked because, as I sat in her living room, I wondered what she missed about life in the United States. But I had asked the wrong question.

“We are home,” she answered. Continue reading “We are home”

They repacked their backpacks. They said their goodbyes. They set out to travel over rough, potholed roads to return home. Many would travel over two days. They faced numbing hours of uncomfortable public transport (think of over-used, over-crowded vans, not Greyhound Buses). Most of them would walk for miles next to busy highways that would be clouded in exhaust fumes. They would arrive home covered with gritty, milk-chocolate-colored African dust.

No one minded. Continue reading “Pastors on the Grow”