So this last week, we've had a crazy schedule. We had one specific class that lasted only this week, but it was 8am-5pm. We will finish that class up this afternoon.
We just started Animism class today. We've only had 2 hours, and it's been awesome so far! We're learning about the religion of Animism and how it will be impacting our ministry to unreached tribal groups. Most of these groups are animistic, even if they have another "cover" religion like Islam or Catholicism. Animism is the belief that spirits and impersonal forces control the world, and the people must manipulate and appease these spirits in order to have healthy lives, crops, and villages. If anything goes wrong, they automatically point it to the spirits. The people live in fear of these spirits.
In order to accurately and effectively present the Gospel to tribal people like this, we need to understand how they think and why they act the way they do. That's what this class is designed to do. We can only give them truth if we understand how to assess and defeat the lies.
Please pray for all of us with this new class as we want and need to understand the concepts for our future ministries overseas.
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