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Take a Howl
BRAZIL — Running through a swamp, Crossworld worker Jon found himself trying to head off a band of wild pigs. He carried only a machete and a short stick more suited to stickball than defending himself from the sharp tusks of a charging boar on an angry stampede.
If I could head them off, Jon thought, maybe they’ll turn back and the people will get a second pass at the pigs with their bows and arrows. And he might have succeeded if not for the infant howler monkey he had rescued earlier that day. Plucked by Jon from a river it had fallen into, the sopping fur-ball clung to his scalp like a tiny coonskin cap...and howled.
Disciple-making for Jon often includes activities like pig-chasing. What’s unconventional for Westerners is simply where life happens in Brazil.
“It seems a surreal way to be helping build a church building,” Jon said later. But the local community of believers has outgrown their meeting place and decided it’s time to build a “house where you tell God He is big.” So Jon is helping them chase pigs, rescue howler monkeys, and yes, build a church. In the activities of daily life, disciples are being made, and communities of believers are taking root.
If I could head them off, Jon thought, maybe they’ll turn back and the people will get a second pass at the pigs with their bows and arrows. And he might have succeeded if not for the infant howler monkey he had rescued earlier that day. Plucked by Jon from a river it had fallen into, the sopping fur-ball clung to his scalp like a tiny coonskin cap...and howled.
Disciple-making for Jon often includes activities like pig-chasing. What’s unconventional for Westerners is simply where life happens in Brazil.
“It seems a surreal way to be helping build a church building,” Jon said later. But the local community of believers has outgrown their meeting place and decided it’s time to build a “house where you tell God He is big.” So Jon is helping them chase pigs, rescue howler monkeys, and yes, build a church. In the activities of daily life, disciples are being made, and communities of believers are taking root.
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