Our short term Engage teams to Indonesia and Cambodia arrived home safely, after spending several weeks having their perceptions challenged across cultures, and learning to connect with Christians in a very different context. They will have a lot to process.
They will have seen firsthand that “Connection is everything” (as the tagline for “The Visitor” states, see our last blog post), not least in discovering how God’s word in the mother tongue communicates like nothing else. No doubt, as they settle back in at home, they will be seeing their own culture with new eyes, and perhaps questioning some things they have always taken as given.
Sharing experience across cultures is a huge privilege. We are enriched as we learn to see the world through others’ eyes, and it is good to become more aware that we are part of a global church, made up of people from ‘every tribe and language and people and nation’ (Revelation 5v9).
Many of us have easy access to God’s word in our own mother tongue, the language we understand best. But as the Engage teams to Indonesia and Cambodia have seen, there are still many without any scripture in their language. How can they connect with God without it?
Please pray for those who are still waiting for God’s word in their language, and for those who are working to make it available. A third Engage team flys out soon to Cameroon for a month. Pray they will also have an enriching time and be an encouragement to the community they are visiting.
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