Category Archives: Africa

20 Oct, 2007

Female Genital Repression

For some of the women in these societies, FGM is seen as an exciting promotion into womanhood and for others, cause for revolt.
Richard Shweder (What about “female genital mutilation”?, 2000) argues that it is not the men who are oppressing and torturing the women in these “ceremonies” but it is the women themselves who [...]

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25 Jul, 2007

Darfur Sudan, a place to pray for

Darfur, Sudan is known as one of the more harrowing examples of the refugee problems in today’s world. Below is a link to a photo essay on the situation in Darfur.

Scorched Earth by Monika Bauerlein

There are 10 [...]

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19 Feb, 2007

African Church in Germany

I made friends with a guy from Cameroon who is here studying Biology. How long he will remain in Germany, he doesn’t know, but he is good company and we are helping each other with language (German for me, English for him).
Yesterday we both visited for the first time an African church in the city. [...]

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12 Feb, 2007

Africa and the Half Dead Man

“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.” Luke 10:30-37
When I think of Africa, I think of a neighbor. I think of an opportunity. In the global arena, we have here a neighbor who has fallen [...]

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19 Apr, 2005

Hitting Walls

I thank everyone for their prayers!
I request for the time, however, some earnest prayers, as I am hitting a lot of walls and have become weary in my soul because of all the difficulties thrust upon me. My attempt to re-enter Kenya was no good. They had zero mercy. I was also taken advantage of [...]

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22 Mar, 2005

Barred from Kenya

It seems that the permit we applied for 2 months ago is delayed “another two weeks”. Well my visa expires this week and they just shrugged their shoulders at me. Did you know that the immigration/passport system in kenya is completely done without computers? A real bother for the foreign missionary
So I am forced to [...]

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11 Dec, 2004

“God is God”

“God is God”
Musiyoke is the herdsman at our base and takes care of about 6 cows, from which we get our milk. There are also a hundred-something chickens which give us eggs (we call them the ywam worship team from the noise they make). There used to be ywam goats, but recently we ate them.
I [...]

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04 Dec, 2004

Held up by Arrows and Plundered, Joyfully

Thanks for your prayers of protection and blessing on my life!
The other week was rather unique for me since it’s the first time I’ve been held up by bows and arrows!
One night that I went out to pray as is the custom for many of us, at around 10pm, and just beyond the gate to [...]

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17 Oct, 2004

News from Kenya

Hello in Christ. I pray everyone is having as good a time in church as we are.
Les I have met your friends, good people to work with. Its funny that I should be the leader of a pastor!
I am on DTS staff helping to lead the school (i.e. small groups, one on ones, and class [...]

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29 Jul, 2002

Hundreds Coming to Christ

Hello my friends,
everything is great.
I have done much witnessing and open-air preaching in the last couple of weeks. The Jesus film team I was on has finished their outreach, in which hundreds and hundreds came to Christ, and I am now back with YWAM and have already helped on a YWAM team doing some open-air [...]

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