Hospitality

December 25th, 2008

The ten days that Gary and I were in Zeongehn Town for the Discipleship Training Workshop, we were warmly received. The entire group of fifty-seven people from the Baptist Association of Nimba County waited up for us until we arrived at one o’clock in the morning! They greeted us with dancing and drumming. The women took my hands and the men took Gary’s, leading us as they danced into the little church. They welcomed us with singing, clapping, and shaking of our hands one by one.

Then almost the entire group walked us to where we would be staying, a meal of cassava and goat awaiting us. Alice and her baby (in the picture above) along with the rest of her family, moved into one tiny room so that Gary and I could have the entire house for an entire week!

What hospitality these country folk had. They gave their very best for us. At this Christmas time I am reminded that God gave us His very best, His Only Son the Lord Jesus Christ. In gratitude I want to give Him my very life.