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Autumn 2009
The Arican
Connection:
The magazine o
Aim International
in Europe.
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When the BBC
reported on the
macabre murders
o 20 albinos in anzania during
2008 it sent out a clear message:
witchcra plays a very large rolein Arica.
Tose albinos were brutally
murdered because witch doctors
claim their body parts are potent
or magic charms. In one case a
ather with albinism was hacked
to death in ront o his wie by a
gang. Aer his uneral his grave
had to be covered in cement to
stop robbers getting to his body
to take the rest o him.
Te act that people are
willing to brutally murder
someone because a witch doctor
says so is testament to the power
such people hold. Spiritualism
and the ear o demons permeate
every area o Arican society
rom the poorest paid armer to
those holding high government
positions. Many inuential
people look to witch doctors
or guidance and it serves as areminder that dierent cultures
hold to dierent worldviews.
anzanian witch doctors are
allowed an ocial licence to
practice a concept that is alien
to us in the West.
Aim International has people
working all across Arica and
many o them share the same
story: syncretism is a problem.
Because spiritualism and
animism are so deeply ingrained
into Aricans psyche they fndit hard to break away rom those
belies. Even when they begin to
ollow Jesus they still hold onto
their old superstitions and ways
to appease the spirits. Partner
that with poor theological
training or pastors, and that is
when we see Christianity and
spiritualism combined. Tere are
common stories o how churches
have no problem allowing the
local witch doctor to take part intheir services.
Well hear in this magazine
rom a number o our workers
who are dealing with this issue.
o them, these arent simply
stories they read about. Its
everyday lie.
Jason Boyd, Editor
tHE AFrIcAN COnnECtIOn | WORSHIPPInG WItH WItCH dOCtORS
Freedom can beound in Jesus,the destroyer o
death! Yet mucho Arica is inbondage to theear o death.This ear leads
many to puttheir hope in thespirit world.
Because spiritualism
and animism are
so deeply ingrained
into Aricans psyche
they fnd it hard to
break away rom
those belies.
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Why did God wakerbb ma upto start her Bible
study early? It wasbecause the witchdoctor was on herway.
The Bible and the drum
As airly new
missionaries to the
feld we went to bed
one evening with the sound o
the witch doctors drum beating
heavily in stark contrast to
the total silence that normally
accompanied us to sleep.Very early in the morning,
just beore daybreak, the Lord
woke me up and asked me to
begin my quiet time. It soon
became apparent why, as the
sound o Me Manthabisengs
drum grew steadily closer. She
was the local witch doctor.
While I stood and opened our
huts door, the witchdoctor
came into our courtyard. As
she knelt down and continued
beating with a glazed-over stare
in her eyes, I let out a small
plea o prayer.
Te usual greetings didnt
phase her. Even asking her i
shed like some coee or tea
wouldnt make her blink. So I
excused mysel and went inside
or my Bible and coee.
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Robbie Mason and her husband, Terry, served in Lesotho
or nine years working among the Basotho people. She
currently volunteers as Administrative Assistant in AIMs
International Ofce. Terry is Director o Personnel also at
AIMs International Ofce.
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hMe Manthabiseng lived in
Lesotho amongst the Basotho,
a Bantu-speaking people.
The Basotho have lived in
southern Arica since around
the fth century.
I returned and proceeded
to let her know that she could
drum away to her hearts
content, but that I was going to
carry on with what I had been
doing as well. As I opened my
Bible and began reading out
loud her spell was broken. Sheasked me to bring her out our
Mosotho mum. I wouldnt
comply and wondered mysel
why she wasnt coming out. So,
the drumming began again.
However, I began reading
and, sure enough, the Word o
God broke through a second
time. Aer several rounds o
this the witch doctor had had
enough and le with the words
Ill be back! to which I called
out: Youre always welcome
here. Come back anytime.
By mid-year, 2004, ourtime in that little village was
coming to a rapid close. It
was then that the Lord began
revealing Himsel to the witch
doctor and gave her some
pretty clear instructions. Tings
happened very quickly.
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She came to us asking or
a Bible and began attending
our morning Bible studies. Not
two weeks aer that she was
praying a prayer o salvation in
our hut. We spent as much time
together as we could possiblyaord while the Lord continued
to speak to her with wonderul
dreams.
Aer nine years o ministry
in Lesotho, we had to leave our
village and its people, who had
become our amily. However,
one memory will stand out in
my heart and mind orever.
One o the men said: Well,
they must leave. Who will pray
or them? Without skipping a
Not two weeks ater that she was praying
a prayer o salvation in our hut.
The hand
written
letter given
to Robbie
and Terry the
day they let.
beat Me Manthabisengs hand
ew up and then, in the exact
spot where six years earlier
she had knelt to call upon the
demons, she once again knelt.
But this time she threw her
hands up in the air and lied
her voice in praise to the One
who seeks and searches or
those He has called His own.
The ex-witchdoctor in
heaven
Robbie told Te African
Connection that aer Me
Manthabisengs salvation,
there was always a strong
eeling that demonic powers
were continually attacking her,
which oen maniested itsel in
very physical ways.
Robbie recalled that when
she talked about everyday
things her voice was normal.
However, all o this wouldchange once she began to speak
about Scripture. Her throat
would contract and she would
fnd it hard to orce the words
out, as i being strangled.
Shortly aer Robbie
and erry le Lesotho Me
Manthabiseng grew ill and
died. o this day Robbie holds
a hand-written letter dear to
her heart. Te ex-witchdoctor
wrote it or them on the
day that they le Lesotho. It
translates:
Me Mamohau le Ntate eboho
(erry and Robbie) and your
riends, go with the peace o
God and remember me. And
Me Mamohau be reminded o
me always when you open the
Bible and when you pray. I am
encouraged by 1 imothy
6:6-10, Daniel 2:20-23.
I thank you in the name o the
Son o ours, Jesus, Amen
Manthabiseng Lehloa
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Manthabiseng Lehloa studying theBible with Robbie Mason. Two oher avorite passages were1 Timothy 6:6-10 & Daniel 2:20-23
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kMargaret in ront o the Longonotvolcano in Rit Valley, 1954.
gMargaret and Herbert on theirwedding day, with bridesmaids GraceSaunders (let) and Margaret Miller(right)
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9tHE AFrIcAN COnnECtIOn | mARGAREt CElEBRAtES 100 yEARS
AIM was only 14 years
old when Margaret
Halliday was born in
Glasgow. Her amily emigrated
to Canada when she was a
young girl but, years later, it wasin Canada that she elt the Lord
calling her to the mission in
Arica. Aer training in a Bible
College she started her service in
Kenya in January 1939.
Aer working in a number
o places she settled among the
Nandi people in Kapsowar and it
was there that she met widower
Herbert Hanson Young, whose
wie had passed away during their
service in Molepolole, Botswana.
As an engineer he was involved in
constructing churches, including
the church at Kapsowar. Aer
leaving Kapsowar he returned
a year later, in 1954, and they
married in 1955. ogether, they
were involved in church-planting
in rural areas and established
both clinics and schools in
remote villages.
While they never had any
children o their own, Margaret
had trained in childcare and was
heavily involved in the education
o women and girls. However,
her inuence has extended
beyond the classroom into the
higher echelons o society. Te
Honourable Daniel Arap Moi,
second President o Kenya, had
recalled to riends o Margaret
how she taught him when he
was a boy.
Likewise, another o her
pupils, Benjamin Kipkorir, laterbecame the Kenyan Ambassador
to the USA as well as Chairman
o the Kenya Commercial
Bank. He still speaks highly o
Margarets inuence in his lie.
Margaret aced many
challenges during her service,
and no more so than when
Herbert passed away while on
home assignment in the UK.
Despite it being a heartbreaking
time or her, Margaret
aerwards elt that the Lord still
had more or her to do so she
returned to Kenya. Altogether,
she dedicated 40 years o her lie
to serving Aricans in Kenya.
Aer her retirement she
returned to the UK and lived
in Essex with her riend Grace
Saunders. Te Lord called
Grace home 10 years ago and
He opened a way or Margaret
to return to her homeland in
Scotland. She has spent the
last eight years in Auchlochan
Christian Care Village and,
today, despite her poor eyesight
and immobility, her avourite
expression is: I couldnt be in a
nicer place.
There are very ew
missionaries who can
claim to have lived
through the majority o
Arica Inland Missions
existence, but that is
exactly what Margaret
Young can do ater she
celebrated her 100th
birthday on 25th July
this year.
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Altogether, she dedicated 40 years o her
lie to serving Aricans in Kenya.
Margaret Youngs prayer card.
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In his bookransforming
Worldviews, Paul
Hiebert defnes the term
worldview as the maps they
have o reality that they use or
living.People in dierent cultures
have dierent worldviews,
dierent maps that guide them
as they interpret the reality o
the world in which they live.
Tey think dierently. Tey act
dierently. Tey evaluate the
world dierently.
Only so much good to go
around
Te Azande believe that within
each society there is a limited
amount o good available or
the members o that society.
Tis good can be material,
physical, and even spiritual.
Since this good is limited, it
needs to be shared equally
among all the members o that
society. I one person begins
to develop themselves and
advances in any way, the othermembers o the society believe
that this person is taking a
larger part o the good than has
been allotted or him. Tey are
compelled to do all they can to
bring that person back down to
their level so that the balance o
good can be maintained.
Living with evil spirits
Te Azande live in ear o the
evil spirits. Tey have one o,
i not the, most complicated
witchcra system in Arica. Its
been said that the Azande eat,
Giant rainbow
snakes, limited good
and the everyday
demonic. How
do you minister
to people who
think completely
diferently rom you?
Wd Ak has
been living in such a
society or 17 years.
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The Azande have the most complicated
witchcrat system in Arica.
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drink, and sleep in relation to
the spirit world. Te distinction
between a biblical worldview
o the spirit world and their
traditional worldview is not
clear or many believers.
Tree deacons and a young
church member were sitting on
my ront porch one aernoon.
As I looked across the valley I
saw a beautiul rainbow. Isnt
that such a great display o
Gods love or us? I said. Te
young church member said:
Have you ever seen the bugs
that make rainbows? As I
sat there very puzzled one o
the deacons responded: Tat
rainbow was not made by bugs.
It is a snake-like creature
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hWendy has built up strong
relationships with the Azande
people.
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hThe Church in CAR is vibrant
but many o them lack sound
theological teaching.
The church service is the ocal
point each week or many people.
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that makes rainbows. I
know a woman who saw that
snake once and when she
looked at it, all o her black skin
ell o and she turned white.
I then asked: Whatdoes the Bible tell us about
rainbows? It took them all a
ew minutes to come up with
the story o Noah. But even
as they agreed to the biblical
interpretation, they warned me
that i I ever saw that snake I
needed to be very careul.
The Challenge
AIM has been preaching the
gospel in the Zande area in
DR Congo and CAR since
the early 1920s. Why have its
truths not ully permeated the
Zande culture? I believe the
biggest challenge we have in our
ministry to this people group
is to determine what aspects
o the believers worldview
have not been transormed
by the gospel. We then need
concentrated teaching at all
levels church leaders, womens
groups, youth organizations,
childrens activities, medical
workers, etc. to conront theseareas with the biblical truths.
oday, when even the most
well-meaning Zande believer
comes ace-to-ace with a
problem, he searches through
the teaching he has had on living
the victorious Christian lie. He
oen does not fnd an answer
to his specifc problem there.
So, he returns to his traditional
teaching. He oen fnds an
answer there so he tries it and
oen comes up with a positive
answer. His aith has been
challenged by the problem. His
lack o a deeper understanding
o Christs liberating power
orces him to return to the ways
o the past that give glory to the
evil one and inhibit him rom
growing in his aith.
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I believe the biggest challenge we have
in our ministry to this people group is to
determine what aspects o the believers
worldview have not been transormed by
the gospel.
For the past seventeen years, Wendy has worked among
the Azande people in DRC and the Central Arican
Republic as an ethnodoxologist, studying how people
worship God through song.
PrAy For cENtrALAFrIcAN rEPubLIc
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APoLogy
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I J 2009 aer Arica Base
Orieaio (ABO) Kathryn, aphsioherapis, sare her
assige o he Isas.
Peter & Katy Wilson, aog
wih heir sos Daniel, Caleb
a Levi, are ow i R,
naibia, workig wih he
miisr o Ecaio a wih
he oca chrch seekig o
sere orphas a erabechire. the arrie i J
aer ABO.
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Rosemary Retties oher
ie i Ags 2009. Rosear
a Bi worke i Kea a
ow work i he Eropea
oce.
Irene Jackson aee ABOi Sepeber 2009 a he
raee o R, naibia,
workig i a ea wih og
peope.
I he asAricanConnection we sai ha
thorse a Kersi Pri
heae p he naibia
Eageica theoogica
Seiar (nEtS) i
Wihoek.
Whie he boh pa
ipora roes i he ie o
he coege he are i acpar o a arger ea, which
ices Ai Ieraioa
ebers Josh a Cah
Hooker. Josh is he pricipe
o he Coege. Pease pra
or hi as he aces a
chaeges i rig nEtS.
Sice he as agazie he
ew ibrar biig hasbee copee, apar ro
sheig a ior iera
work. the ocia opeig
wi be o 6h noeber.
the Coege hose is 4h
Wor Aie ee o 12h
Sepeber o he book o
Habakkk. the aeria was
ehsiasica receie b
a who aee a he
ee was recore b a
aioa raio saio.
WE dIE bEcAuSE WE SIN
throgho Arica hisor
he reai o eah has
bee preae. I 1919, he
new york ties wroe: maaria,
bercosis, a peoia
he swaps a oress wih eah.
the ear o eah is so cosa a
copaio o he [Arica] peope
ha he hae coe o cosier
heir aie wich ocor as ore
ipora ha he rig oreig
goere or he chie o heir ow
ribe.
ma Aricas si ie i ear,
wheher ha be ear o sickess, heir
acesra spiris, or eah ise.
I Ephesias we are reie
ha eah is a res o or
isobeiece o Go. Wiho Jess
we are ea i si (Ephesias 2:1).
WE oFtEN SIN bEcAuSE WE dIE
leo toso, ahor oWar and
Peace aske he qesio: Is here
a eaig i ie ha
he ieiabe eah
awaiig e oes
o esro?
nohig is ore esrcie ha
eah. the ear o eah si eas
a Aricas o p heir hope i
raiioa heaers (or wich ocors).
ye o aer wha eaig we r
a or ies wih, rig o ake
sese o ie wiho Jess is si.
WE dIE to SIN though JESuS
the ear o eah eas s a io
ieog saer (Hebrews 2:15).
Wiho Jess, here is ohig we
ca o ha eah oes o esro.
Howeer ipressie or reaso
or ie igh be, ohig is as
ipressie as wha Jess has oe
or s. deah esros eerhig, b
Jess esros eah!
Hebrews 2:14-15 reis s o
he grea rh ha hrogh Jess
we ca be ea o si raher ha
ea i si:
Sice hereore he chire share i
fesh a boo, he hise ikewise
parook o he sae higs, ha
hrogh eah he igh esro he
oe who has he power o eah,
ha is, he ei, a eier a
hose who hrogh ear o eah
were sbjec o ieog saer.
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Back in 2004 when
Rachel and I were
leading the Digo imo
team in anzania we had
the privilege o inviting our
neighbour to join us or a teamday that we were holding at our
house.
Every Tursday we would
meet as a team to pray, study
Gods word and learn how to
be better church planters. I was
particularly looking orward to
this team day as our neighbour
had agreed to be interviewed
so that we could gain a better
understanding o what part
he played in the community
and to try and fnd out his
particular worldview.
Picture the scene: ten
missionaries sitting in a
mud hut joined by the most
prominent witch doctor in
the village (there were fve in
our village alone). Shabani
was happy or the team to
ask as many questions as
we liked about his work. He
seemed relaxed and the team
were eager to ask questions.
We started o well, with a
number o good questions, but
then we got to one that I was,
quite rankly, embarrassed to
translate. Te question was:
Do you like being a witch
doctor? Having lived in the
community or a longer periodthan the team it was quite
obvious to me that the answer
would be Yes. Witch doctors
were held in high esteem and
they weregiven lots o
gis or their
labours.
O course
he enjoyed
being a witch doctor. However,
Shabanis response shocked
me. He said: No, I hate being
a witch doctor. Pressing him a
little urther he explained that
he had no choice in the matter
because both his ather and his
grandather were witch doctors
and thereore he had to be one
too. He didnt enjoy his role but
he elt duty bound to provide
or his community in this way.
I learnt a very simple
but important lesson that
aernoon: when we reach out
with the gospel we must listen
to the person we are trying to
reach. I thought I knew what
Shabani would answer but
I hadnt actually asked him.
From that day on I viewed my
neighbour in a very dierent
light. Rather than seeing him
as an enemy o the gospel, I elt
sorry or him a man needing
a Saviour just like you and me.
In Christ,
Andrew Chard
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Aricas central regionprovides some o thegreatest challengesbut also greatestopportunities or theGospel.
Its 40C in Maelings cooler
rainy season, and being one o the
remotest areas in Chad means that
simply reaching the village is an extreme
experience in itsel.
Aer ying rom Chads capital,
NDjamena, you land in Ba Illi and its
straight into a jeep. Te hal hour journey
takes you to a small boat, and when you
make it over to the other side o the river
there is a walk over hot sand beore you
reach Maelings green grass.
Yet, despite its remoteness, the message
o Jesus is reaching people through AIMs
Korean workers who are living out the
Gospel message there. Tey are part o a
team teaching in a primary school built by
AIM, where children arrive every day rom
miles around to laugh and learn.
Islam also has a presence in the area,
which is represented by the mosque in the
centre o the village, but it exists alongside
Christianity in harmony. Pray or AIMs
work in Maeling.
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Living among Muslims
here you quickly realise
that the way many o
them live their lives doesnt
match up to the Islam taught in
the mosques.
Where in the Quran does it
teach you to protect your baby
boy rom evil spirits by placinga knie next to him in the crib?
Or how about soaking a prayer
rom the Quran in water and
using that water to protect your
house rom evil spirits? And did
you know that the reason that
man has a physical disability is
because he talked while in the
bathroom?
Tis is olk or popular
Islam; a world where i you
comment on how well a baby
is growing her grandmother
will quickly utter a blessing and
youll be told in no uncertain
terms such things arent said.
Dancing with spirits
While not always spoken about,
the clues are everywhere. You
wonder why so many womencareully hide away any strands
o their hair that came out aer
brushing. But when you realise
that someone could use it to
curse them it begins to make
perect sense. At other times
it is much more overt, such as
the special ceremonies where
certain women dance with
the Madjini or spirits. In other
amilies we fnd that there is a
generational spirit that is passed
While it is commonto hear how
syncretism has
crept into Arican
Christianity, it is not
alone. Islams rigorousteachings are also
acing compromise.
la* works in an
Islamic community
on an Indian Oceanisland.
olkISlAmHow Syncretism within Islam presents anotherspiritual barrier to proclaiming the Gospel.
tHE AFrIcAN COnnECtIOn | FOlK ISlAm
Phoo:On-feldedia
* no her rea ae
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down the emale line. Whether
hidden or overt, this mixing
o classical Islam with more
animistic belies is in reality a
broad undercurrent that helps
many cope with the trials and
diculties o everyday lie.
And it is the special domain o
women.
Spiritual walls
Such practices have the
strongest hold on those to
whom the ocial teachings
o Islam are least available
and have the least to oer.
With limited access to the
mosque and little instruction
in the Quran it isnt hard to
understand why many women
dont realise how ar they are
wandering rom its teachings in
their search or protection rom
evil spirits.
Our team continues to
come up against constant walls
as we try to reach women here.
It seems that the existence o
such dabbling (or even ull
immersion) in the spirit worldadds yet another spiritual
barrier that stops these women
rom coming to know Jesus.
Pray or these women; pray
that as they seek blessing and
protection they would come to
know Him who came to destroy
the works o the devil (1 John
3:8). And pray or us that we
would be Gods instruments to
bring His truth, His light and
His power to these islands.
the spirit world adds yet another
spiritual barrier that stops these women
rom coming to know Jesus.
tHE AFrIcAN COnnECtIOn | FOlK ISlAm
fMany mothers will place
a knie by their babys crib to
protect them rom evil spirts.
rgProle
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uneae peple 70%
INdIAN ocEAN ISLANdS
ureachepeope
70%
W
e ca share specic
ocaios b a
peope ie a ie i he
isa regios o Arica wiho
eer hearig he Goo news o
Jess Chris. For ecaes AIm
has eeaore o reach he.
Pease pra or he aace o
he gospe i his hosie par
o he wor.
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he 28 year old woman
was a member o
the choir at the local
church at Banda, DR Congo.
She was also was a medium
and possessed a garden in
her plot o land. It was in this
garden that she would make her
incantations.
One day, she was surprised
by a deacon rom the church
while she was in the middle o
reciting her incantations. She
had a large snake and a dognext to her and the deacon,
not understanding what was
going on, cried out in order to
save her. However, the woman
was surprised by the strangers
interruption and became very
angry. She demanded that he
immediately go away without
looking back but the deacon
insisted that he could not leave
when she was in such grave
danger.
When the deacon came
close to the choir member she
violently grabbed one o his
fngers, put in into her mouth,
and began to roll to the ground
with enough strength to break
it o.
The demonic world
maniests itsel across
Arica in a very physical
way, no more so than
when the church
is involved. In an
example o that battle,
a church deacon was
violently attacked by a
member o his church
ater he interrupted her
witchcrat ceremony.
tHE AFrIcAN COnnECtIOn |IntERRuPtInG An InCAntAtIOn
InterruptIngAn IncantatIon
CuProle
Aricas seco-argescor has ieseecooic resorces, e he
deocraic Repbic o Cogo(dR Cogo) is sriig o
recoer ro a e-ear war;
iios ie, os hrogh
saraio a isease.
capial . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kishasa
Size . . . . . . . . . . . 2,344,858 k2
Pplain . . . . . . . 62,600,000
dr coNgo
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PoINtS For PrAyEr
tha wichcras ho o
socie wi weake
For chrch eaers o
sa srog agais he
ifece o wichcra
tha hose ioe i
wichcra wi reaise how
he eoic powers are
ohig copare o he
power o Jess
She kept the fnger in her
mouth until she was taken
to the police oce at Banda.
It was there, beore the
police with her mouth ull o
human blood, that she spat
out the fnger o her victim.
Meanwhile, the dog which
was in the garden began tobite itsel until it died.
Te woman was arrested,
but beore being placed in
prison she insisted that it
was very important or her
to bury her dog. She was
granted permission and
according to the witnesses
who went with her, this choir
member buried her dog in
a beautiul cloth with many
cries o distress.
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outandbuildingup
relationshipswithwomen
involvedinprostitution
inNdjamena,the
capital,inorderto
sharetheGospelwith
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helpthemtoacquirean
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