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Abidjan...at the Copa, Copacabana
Despite all my sleeping during the day, I slept like a baby! The sound of the waves was in my dreams, that I do remember.
I got up really early to send emails and let people know I am alive and well. It is like a weight lifted once I know people know I am well. I suppose its like a psychological umbilical cord!
Although the idea of going to Abidjan tempted me, I decided a lazy ...
Baptisms and seminars
... use what we have available since it it limited. And more is not always what’s best. I’ve personally witnessed misguided generosity do much harm in the developing world, so I try to take great care, being neither stingy nor profligate. I often have in mind the prayer in the Proverbs (30:8-9):
"Give me neither poverty nor riches—
Feed me with the food allotted to me;
Lest I be full and deny You,
And say, ...
Kilometre 17
... for coming. I asked Paul to distribute some tri-fold brochures covering our fundamental beliefs, then spoke for about 45 minutes, giving a brief Bible study about the upcoming Holy Days. Then I gave them the opportunity to ask questions. Some of those present have been with the church for a number of years; some are quite new, so the questions varied widely:
- What does leaven represent?
· Is it wrong to eat ...
Abidjan: skyscrapers, Coupé-Décalé and Drogba
... surprising "Ah bien, and the Golf Hotel." The Golf became famous as the place where newly elected Alassane Ouattara was forced to encamp and establish his presidency after winning the 2010 November 28 vote. The longterm encumberant, Laurence Gbagbo (the one who had massacred rebels in the North and had been recently on state radio calling ordinary people to kill French citizens) holed himself in a bunker in the Presidential Palace and refused to hand ...
Out of Africa?
... is normally a very rare experience. I also give them some help to more than make up for any loss of income. Still they do take time off, and dedicate that time to the work of the Church, they work long days, and it is much appreciated.
At the end of the afternoon, I checked out of the hotel and settled my account. Then I had an early dinner (one normally doesn’t eat dinner in a French restaurant until at least 7:00 pm), and tried to take the ...
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