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Around the World: Chicken soup for the soul, women’s renewal and more quick takes
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Around the World is our monthly rundown of news briefs, links and quotes from Churches of Christ all over the globe. Got an idea for this column? Email Erik Tryggestad at [email protected].
LIBERIA
MONROVIA — In a place called Chicken Soup Factory, they provided chicken soup for the soul.
A team of Liberian, Nigerian and American church members recently completed a Back to the Bible evangelism workshop and door-knocking campaign in the Gardnersville Township of Monrovia, the capital of this West African nation.
The Gulf Church of Christ in Chicken Soup Factory hosted the event. The community of about 25,000 people gets its unusual name from a now-defunct chicken bouillon cube factory once operated by the Maggi spice company.
A new believer is baptized during the Back to the Bible campaign in Liberia.
Prince Ugbe, director of the Darrell Memorial Bible Institute in Nigeria, and his wife, Regina, worked with Liberian missionary Edmund Borfay and Phil Taylor and Ray Hawkins of Manassas, Va. The team gave away more than 100 Bibles, spoke with nearly 200 Liberians and baptized five people during the first week of the campaign.
“A door of faith is open,” Prince Ugbe said, “within the Chicken Soup Factory.”
PAKISTAN
LAHORE — In this predominantly Muslim nation of 236 million people, about a dozen preachers from Churches of Christ gathered to train and encourage each other at a recent seminar. The preachers, who face persecution and alienation for their faith, also honored the legacy of two Christians who committed much of their lives to gospel work in Pakistan. Native evangelist Eric Masih died in 2021 from COVID-19. Bruce Antsey, missions liaison to Pakistan for the Woodmont Hills Church of Christ in Nashville, Tenn., died in 2022.
Seminar organizers presented certificates to the participants and gave special recognition to a 17-year-old Christian who coordinates online services for the church in Lahore in addition to song leading and youth outreach.
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UNITED KINGDOM
KINCARDINE — About 30 Christian women gathered at Tulliallan Castle in Scotland for the recent Field of Refuge Women’s Renewal — the first since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Participants in the Field of Refuge Women’s Retreat share their original artwork.
Participants focused on “Grace,” the theme for the 2024 retreat. Speakers including Cinde Cesone and Chrissy Vick offered “encouraging and challenging lessons on God’s grace and the grace that we should show others,” said Sarah Haddow, a participant from Dundee, Scotland.
Another participant, Marianne Dale of Livingston, Scotland, said, “We bloom where we’re planted, and we are all at different stages in our Christian growth. And when we offer grace to others, like the blowing of a wish on a dandelion, it reminds us that we may never know how it travels or lands with the wind.”
This report appeared in a recent issue of Christian Worker, a publication for Churches of Christ in the U.K.
