On Sunday, we visited a church in Bensonville. It is located a few miles down the road from the church in Guinness Town that we visited the previous week. This particular church building is fairly new and was completed in partnership with Samaritan's Purse.
It was again so cool to worship with our Liberian brothers and sisters in Christ. The prayer time was moving. Following the pastor's call to prayer, everyone in the church simultaneously lifted their personal praises and petitions to our God. To human ears, it was a garble of voices, but to God, it was the individual and valuable expressions of his children. The prayer was sorrowful, joyful, pleading and expectant, all at the same time.
The praise was as God intended; from the heart and within the worshiper's cultural context. It was moving, to say the least.
Following the service, we presented some gifts for the community to the church leadership.
Four of us in our Liberian garb.
As we prepared to leave, Kolegar stopped by to wish us safe travels and Evan dropped off a few final carvings. We loaded all of our crates and luggage on top of the Land Cruiser and amazingly, everything was still there when we arrived at the airport.
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