"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Language Learning - Graduating from Linguistic Childhood as A Missionary!

Language Preparation:

"Language study is just as important as cultural learning. Pablo Carrillo, the Latin American missionary mentioned at the beginning of this paper, works in the Muslim world. Carrillo admits that Latin Americans now understand the difficulty of language learning:

"We Latin's [sic] have some evangelical jokes about foreign missionaries that come to our country and are not able to speak Spanish well. Well, now it is our turn to take on the role of the "village idiot" as we stumble through Arabic and other languages in our attempt to relate to the people in the host culture. How ironic this is, and my, what a sense of humor the Lord must have in permitting us to go through such a humiliating situations. (Pablo Carrillo; "Struggles of Latin Americans in Frontier Missions" International Journal of Frontier missions 1995: 196)


("Una Perspective Diferente: Latin Americans and the Global Mission Movement, Laura Heikes. Missiology, Jan 2003 pg 77-78)

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