Do local people have anything to teach us?

Today I would like to share with you a blog post that I wrote for another blog site- A Life Overseas.

A Life Overseas is a blog for mission workers across the globe. It has been a major source of encouragement and challenge for me over the years and shaped a lot of my reflections on our experiences. It was very exciting to be asked to contribute this piece about our expectations of learning from local Christians.

From the article:

”It seems like a total cliché to say that I miss the community in Cambodia. It’s the one thing that all short-term and long-term missionaries who return from Southeast Asia say. “I learnt so much about community, about eating meals together, about living intergenerationally.” And even though there is an element of truth in that, I wonder if it comes up so much because it’s the one thing that we westerners are “allowed” to say that we have learnt from Southeast Asians.”

Read more here: https://www.alifeoverseas.com/do-local-people-have-anything-to-teach-us/

Coming up

Next week we begin our series on best development principles. Get ready for some great reflections by Mony and Saray and some thoughts from me. As part of this series, we are offering you the chance to join with us ‘in person’ as we discuss some of the complexity of concepts such as dependence and sustainability. You can register for this event by following the link here