What are the living conditions like for the local people?
Their houses are very basic, with little or no furniture, maybe a few mats, the ground is the floor and the walls are bare. Food consists of home-grown fruit and vegetables. Toilets and showers are outside The toilet is known as the long drop because it is a hole in the ground. John, one of the local people who was our translator, even though he was very poor used his tithing to give us a feast. Q. What is the food like? Our diet consisted mainly of rice, potatoes, cabbage and goats meat, ciabattas and spaghetti. Sometimes we were fed at Keytume Primary School where we were building the church and once by a community we visited. So some food was different and included makota (cooked banana), yam plant, mango and other fruit and monkey nut sauce. Q. How is the African culture different from ours? The African worship is free, for example, in one particular church I visited people were able to stand up and pray when the occasion arose. There was no set liturgy, and drums were mainly the o
