Not market day, but gifts to missionaries from East African friends. Once when a missionary was named the ‘Most Honored Patron’ of an orphanage, she thought: A new angle to get money? No, it was thanks for the stalks of bananas, trays of eggs, as well as alive and kicking goats and chickens her family dropped at the orphanage after receiving more gifts than they could use from rural churches! As missionaries learn and respond to their People Groups’ ways of expressing thanks and their way of making requests (which may be offensive in the missionary's culture), pray for a strong sense of God’s discernment and guidance.
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