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Today’s Update
By DnA | April 14, 2008
Some days we just want to eat a good pancake and then read a good book. We got to read a great book.
PANCAKE UPDATE #1
OK! You remember that we first had to get to a store to buy some flour, eggs and milk, along with a pan and turner. Rides happen on Thursdays only. Check.
But we had no stove. Someone lent us a stove: problem solved. We got out all our ingredients, and then we realized that we had no matches. Rats!
Another week and back to the store for a Bic lighter. Aha! Now we would have the long awaited pancakes. But no! It seems the gas bottle was out of butane.
Several more days gone by. We obtained a new bottle of butane, and this one is even larger than the first one. Lots of lovely pan cakes. I can just taste them now. Oops! Apparently this larger gas bottle doesn’t have the correct attachment for our hose.
I finally got desperate enough to look up microwave pancakes on the internet. Seems they are really easy to do: you just take the frozen pancake out of the store package and pop it in the microwave. Not what we had in mind, especially since we don’t have a freezer.
One of these days we will get the bigger bottle of gas returned, get our quaint English money back and try again. For now, I wonder if there is any way to make a piece of microwave toast? Hmmm. . . .
TEA AND A GOOD BOOK
There are over 2000 WEC missionaries out there; some of them have written wonderful books. One such new book is Unafraid of the Sacred Forest by Ronaldo Lidorio, WECcer from Brazil. (Christian Focus Publications, 2007.) The forest, however, is not in Brazil but in Northern Ghana, where Ronaldo and his wife Rossana labored among the Konkomba people for many years in medical ministry and Bible translation as well as in church planting and training of church leaders.
The Konkomba are largely undisturbed by the modern world – a foreigner is someone from a village five miles away; there are only six days in a week and no such thing as a year; polygamy is a virtue, and marriage may be based on swapping your sister for your bride.
Here the most powerful people in the villages are not tribal chiefs but witchdoctors who have practiced their art for centuries. The forest is a place held sacred for generations – where to be afraid is good for your chances of survival.
—-Christian Focus Publishing
The Lidorios faced formidable cultural and language barriers where tribal warfare and human sacrifices still occur. But their story and the story of the Konkombas is one you will not want to put down.
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