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May - 2024
Road to Rwanda---So What's the Point?
This is a post by Joel Corbin. We taught him during our time in Senegal (2002-2010). He is a missionary kid, born and bred on the African mission field. He and his wife and two little bitty sons serve in Gambia in a remote village to the Mandinka tribe. Recently he posted this on FB: Since I started working overseas in 2017, I’ve noticed that actually being a missionary on the ground is a ton different than what people in the US realize. Part of the fault of this is on the missionary’s end. We are so driven to present the best parts of our work overseas as the “fruit” of the investment of churches and inviduals that we often leave out the hard parts, the mundane parts, the “real life” parts that make up most of our day- in and day-out grind as a cross-cultural worker. I only wonder how much of the Book of Acts was highlights of God’s work, whereas the day to day lives of the first Christians was pretty ordinary