Personal Journeys
Written on Mar 10, 2018
Our journey in cross-cultural ministry began in 1973 when we
moved from Northern Minnesota to South Carolina. If you are asking why this was
cross-cultural while it is still in the U.S., you have never made this kind of
move. It was monumental. I could not even understand what my students were
saying to me in the grade one class at a children’s home. (We had 100 kids in
care back then.) The Lord has led since then through 10 years in Latin America,
10 years in Africa, and 8 years in Asia. My goal in this blog is to share
current insights into our daily life in China. But I also want to share from
our book, Eight Steps to Emotional,
Relational, Spiritual Wholeness: The Healing Power of the Beatitudes. We are asking for help in creating a following
through this blog in order to more successfully publish our book.
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ReplyDeleteWonderful Beginnings!
ReplyDeleteYES . . . Southern hillbilly culture is quite different from Northern Minnesota and you landed smack dab in the midst of it. I'm sure that language was not the only difference. It was God's schooling to prepare you for further cross-cultural experiences. Although Rick was always reading back then, I remember he was reading "Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally" by David Hesselgrave.
ReplyDeleteLanguage was definitely not the only difference. And yes, definitely God's classroom.
ReplyDeleteHave you published the book?
ReplyDeleteNo, just looking at it, no movement. Want to find an agent, but can't seem to find one. If we self publish, we have no way to market it.
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