The story is told of two single missionary women who served among the Kambu in Kenya. The local people, very curious about these two visitors, observed that each morning the two would sit out on their veranda and drink juice. The longer the two missionaries were there the more discouraged they became because they had not made one convert. Finally, after about a year, the two packed up and went home, convinced that this unreceptive community was resistant to the gospel. The married couple that was sent to replace them soon discovered why the two single missionaries had failed. Women, in that culture, drink juice in the morning after they have had a sexual relationship. The women in the community, thinking the two single missionaries were having affairs with their husbands, spread the word quickly and collectively agreed not to associate with such people.
("The Taking Drums; What are they saying about you." Del Chinchen -Missionary in Africa 22 years Bible Department Daystar University Nairobi Kenya. EMQ Oct 2001)
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