Growing Together

Growing Together is a newsletter supplement to The Messenger online but with a focus on what is happening in our culture and the issues that are challenging for the church.

As a small church conference, we cannot, and will not try to do what larger organizations do. What we will do, is discuss the issues that have an impact on us, with arguments and material to assist us to think through issues intelligently from several angles. As with everything we do, we are committed to the Bible as inspired by God and the truth by which we live.

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The Way We Give

It was mid-morning when I found Mamadou Traoré at his restaurant, a six-foot-square plywood kiosk painted baby blue, its shutters propped open with sticks, bar stools lined up at the window.

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“YIIN–LAMPA MƆ́N KWƐŊL!” “Look - Five Lamps!”

A dozen children pressed their noses against the screen of our porch staring into the white people’s house.

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Misunderstandings of Patron/Client Relationships

We had lived and worked in a particular country for several years and had learned and adjusted to much of the culture.