In Wajiele, they told us that they had met already earlier that morning and waited for us, even though we've never come before 11:00a.m. While waiting on folks to show we read the new bilingual Dagara / French newspaper, Daa-yi and picked "grapes," the exact opposite of seedless - one might even call them fruitless. Anyway, even though the grapes have little, what they have, they give. The lesson in Wa-jiele was on giving, always a touchy subject for me, since I am from the richest nation on earth, and these are Christians among the third poorest nation on earth. Anyway, what I've come to understand in teaching about giving is that the idea that giving should correspond in any way to how God has blessed you (i.e., a tithe or other percentage like that) is totally foreign. They just toss in the lowest denomination of coin they have with them. It's not much up from that to a tithe, but the difference is as much a challenge to their faith as it is to ours. The church in Wa-jiele also saw the importance of the church having a little money to help someone in their community that may need medicine or something. Pray that, as the Dagara test God out to see what happens when they give sacrificially, God would pour out abundant blessings on them.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Give it up
Today I went to find out about what the word is on Sorkawn. As it turns out, the ladies from Sorkawn that requested that we come and evangelize their town have not gotten back with Kpezuo yet.
In Wajiele, they told us that they had met already earlier that morning and waited for us, even though we've never come before 11:00a.m. While waiting on folks to show we read the new bilingual Dagara / French newspaper, Daa-yi and picked "grapes," the exact opposite of seedless - one might even call them fruitless. Anyway, even though the grapes have little, what they have, they give. The lesson in Wa-jiele was on giving, always a touchy subject for me, since I am from the richest nation on earth, and these are Christians among the third poorest nation on earth. Anyway, what I've come to understand in teaching about giving is that the idea that giving should correspond in any way to how God has blessed you (i.e., a tithe or other percentage like that) is totally foreign. They just toss in the lowest denomination of coin they have with them. It's not much up from that to a tithe, but the difference is as much a challenge to their faith as it is to ours. The church in Wa-jiele also saw the importance of the church having a little money to help someone in their community that may need medicine or something. Pray that, as the Dagara test God out to see what happens when they give sacrificially, God would pour out abundant blessings on them.
In Wajiele, they told us that they had met already earlier that morning and waited for us, even though we've never come before 11:00a.m. While waiting on folks to show we read the new bilingual Dagara / French newspaper, Daa-yi and picked "grapes," the exact opposite of seedless - one might even call them fruitless. Anyway, even though the grapes have little, what they have, they give. The lesson in Wa-jiele was on giving, always a touchy subject for me, since I am from the richest nation on earth, and these are Christians among the third poorest nation on earth. Anyway, what I've come to understand in teaching about giving is that the idea that giving should correspond in any way to how God has blessed you (i.e., a tithe or other percentage like that) is totally foreign. They just toss in the lowest denomination of coin they have with them. It's not much up from that to a tithe, but the difference is as much a challenge to their faith as it is to ours. The church in Wa-jiele also saw the importance of the church having a little money to help someone in their community that may need medicine or something. Pray that, as the Dagara test God out to see what happens when they give sacrificially, God would pour out abundant blessings on them.
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