This is kind of a missions philosophy question/curiosity. Maybe an example would help.
Let’s say there’s a country that doesn’t allow Christian missionaries to enter. It may be due to another dominant religion’s hostility, government policy or a combination of reasons. So, for someone like myself working with a mission organization, I’d have no access to [...]
I’ve got a pastor friend here in TZ who recently left his rather large, electronically-well-equipped church because of a dispute. I don’t know or understand the details of the parting, so I’m definitely not going to make a judgment of who I think is in the right or wrong. This friend had followers leave the [...]
http://www.scripture-engagement.org/content/advice-scripture-and-drama-recording
This is a great (very short) article with a downloadable .pdf with advice for recording drama-styled Scripture. Even though you may not be doing this time of work, it gives you a glimpse of the kinds of things we need to consider as we go into the studio to record mother tongue materials.
That’s the ping pong match going back and forth in me right now.
On one hand, I’m excited that 55 cassettes were taken by 5 different Nyakyusa pastors today. It is progress. It is God’s Word going out in a form that makes it accessible to more people. It is an accomplishment that I should be [...]
So, we’ve been in Tanzania for over a year and still don’t have a church we regularly attend. We have options, but they’re…. well… challenging. All-Swahili all-the-time is very tiring and even getting just the simplest jist of a sermon is an astounding accomplishment. Spritual nourishment. Nil. Headache. Prominent. Frustration. High. That means making a [...]
This post is going to be kinda weird. What I’m going to write about is our car and the vast number of things that we’ve had go wrong with it. And ask if you think our car (thus us) is being spiritually attacked. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.
We got the car [...]
Bad hearts.
Tuesday, 3:00 pm – Mama Ima’s kids show up for a visit as Mama told them both Dana and I would be at the house that afternoon.
Tuesday, 4:30 pm – The kids finish pizza, ice cream and a studio tour before heading home.
Tuesday, 6:00 pm – I notice out of the kitchen window that [...]
As I sat in our daily devotion the other day, I noticed something peculiar: a handful of single missionary women and not one (ZERO, NADA) single missionary man, much less a handful of them. So, I looked at our branch poster. Across Tanzania and Uganda, we have twenty single missionary women serving. [...]
Weird combination, huh? Maybe. Maybe not. I say that because that was me. I got Theo when I was 26 and just beginning to again acknowledge God in my life. Theo has been there through some of the biggest parts of my life: my return to God, my marriage to Dana, our call to the [...]
What is your first feeling when someone says that to you? Do you see them Pharisee-like, proclaiming the fact only to be recognized for their own personal glory? That’s been my tendency because why announce it, right? Wrong. In the body of Christ, we should share each others burdens and pray for each other. How [...]
