Great and busy Sunday! Went to Mayos for Baka Likano. Our visitors from the Cameroon Baptist Convention (World Team and other mission organizations partner with them) were with us. We have had women from the Women’s Union visiting with the Mayos women, and then, while church was going on, one of the area pastors, one of the area chairmen, and some others also stopped at Mayos. This was not arranged prior, but it was cool for the Baka to see that their own countrymen (and women) are pulling for them, and want to equip them to reach their people with the story of Jesus. I am SO GLAD that the Cameroonian Christians share that vision of equipping the Baka believers. They know their language and culture best. We want to be like Jesus, who came and lived in his culture and related to people within the culture. He criticized things which were wrong in his culture, and used things everyone would understand to teach all that he taught. He made disciples who were to do all of those things, too. And, with the sacrifice of his life, he began to transform his culture.
Today, we send missionaries so that all will hear. The best ones realize their role in the process, and pour themselves into evangelism, yes, but also into making disciples, which brings about life change. Once there are believers to be sent out, the missionary’s job here is done. Awesome!
Speaking of sending out local believers, I forgot to mention that we sent out two of our Baka men yesterday on an evangelistic outreach of a nearby region. They will be gone for some days, reaching out to some other Baka communities. Please be in prayer for Timothy and Nestor!
Back to today, I had a pleasant afternoon, and also worked more on packing. Suitcases are scattered about my room now, at various levels of being filled. I’ve gone through everything except some bookcases. Getting there!!!
Dinner was sooooo gooooood. I’ve talked about Laurel’s pizza before. I decided I should call it pizzahhhhhh. Yum.
After dinner, I borrowed Nathan’s binoculars and slipped outside after dinner. After my eyes adjusted, WOW! Soooo many stars! I couldn’t possibly count them. So beautiful. So glad the rain clouds from earlier cleared out so I could see that.
And just now, I went to use my flashlight. My awesome 4 sevens mini I that has been soooooooo awesome. And the top snapped off. CRAZY – glad it lasted most of my time. It was my low reading light, too!
Well, that’s today! Tomorrow is our last Monday of school, and I get to hang out with the Abbotts after school, talk about the future, and share dinner with them. Pray for our last week of school and those conversations. God is good!
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