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January 15, 2019

Go and Do What You’re Told

I slumped down into my pew deeper and deeper, feeling small and insignificant. My family and I had returned to the United States for a break from our work translating the New Testament for a language group in Togo. We were one of several couples invited to speak at...

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Carol Brinneman

August 9, 2010

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What Do You Want to Say?

A few years back, a fellow global worker handed me an unusual piece she had written about living near a massive trash dump in a large African city. The writing was exquisite, but I was puzzled and asked her, “What are you trying to say? What is your message?”...

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Carol Brinneman

September 13, 2009

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Tryst and Obey

How can we global worker women maintain intimacy with God on the mission field? When I first contemplated this question, pictures of women praying and reading the Word—in quietness—sprang to mind. The truth is, many places where we serve afford little privacy, peace, or quiet. Think more of a...

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Carol Brinneman

April 13, 2009

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The Lights of Home

Early in my first African sojourn, I was traversing a grassy knoll toward a village when I looked up and saw a young man exit his home. The simple house was built entirely of thick, dark-brown mud bricks; the man burst out the door in dazzling, pure-white robes. My...

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