Daqm did most of the teaching today. 5 of my disciples went. 2 cooked for all of us and the other three taught. Over the past 6 years of being on the mission field full-time I've learned it's about the journey and not the task that is important. Today started at 9 and the plan … Continue reading Journey
Home
By Claudia Where is "home"?This is a hard question for me to answer. As a child, I struggled to answer. I moved alot and went to 10 different schools before graduating from high school. It seemed that I was always the "new" girl at school. I was always asked where are you from? Even this … Continue reading Home
Bush medicine
Living in a place my body didn't grow up leads to bi-monthly battles with my tummy. Friday I woke up and the battle had started. Normally it's no problem, as I'm in town. However we had promised and planned for weeks to help setup the new village with our family here. I was their ride. … Continue reading Bush medicine
Blow my mind
Today I started to work with a few of the trained translators here on a project that will help our Bible curriculum and oral project. We are trying to get Matthew 5,6,7 into Ju'/hoansi. This is Jesus famous sermon the mount. These passages are loaded with amazing content for new believers and followers of Christ … Continue reading Blow my mind
A simple handshake
Today we went to another village to start teaching the oral discipleship curriculum. Tsumkwe is isolated and we were 50 km from Tsumkwe. As we arrived an older gentleman extended his hand and we exchanged the African handshake and greeted each other in Ju'hoansi. I was transported back to the "old days". How I miss … Continue reading A simple handshake
