Graveyards and dishwashers
My office overlooks a lovely country church with a graveyard. I have never paid much attention to the graveyard until today.
Yesterday the manager of our Children’s centre in Cambodia was visiting where I work for her first time. Looking out of the window she was amazed at the graveyard. She has only seen them here in our nation.
Yesterday she took pictures of herself and our other project leader standing in front of a dishwasher! Again amazed at this brilliant and essential invention.
Graveyards and dishwashers.
Culturally acceptable for us. In fact it is only when they are confronted by those who are strangers to them that they stand out for us.
But how do we survive culture?
Jeremiah 29:4-9
Going into a different culture can be quite stressful and we can be anxious however ….
v4 God is still speaking from within a different culture.
v5 Build, settle, plant and eat = learn to live within a different culture.
v6 Marry …. Increase, let your children be born in a different culture.
v7 Pray for those within a different culture.
v8 Don’t let things within a different culture deceive you.
Missions Paul 