Lisa Leidenfrost

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  From The Village To The Ends Of The Earth

  $28.25

  Children having fun in the jungle pairs well with the hard work on the mission field.

  In this sequel to At the End of the Village, Lisa Leidenfrost describes life in her village in Cote d’ Ivoire. Although there are exciting stories about the local witch doctor and escaping from a civil war, life as a missionary is often surprisingly normal. Family life need not be crowded out by frenetic translation schedules and fundraising furloughs. Whether it’s the humorous cultural differences in hospitality or courtship, or the kids’ adventures with driver ants, snakes, bees, a bushbaby, or a parrot, From the Village to the Ends of the Earth shows what it is like to raise a family while building the kingdom of God in Africa.

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  At The Edge Of The Village

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  Acknowledgments
  Preface
  Part I: Background
  Part II: Family Life
  Part III: Village Life
  Part IV: Animals
  Part V: People
  Part VI: Culture
  Part VII: Trials
  Part VIII: School
  Epilogue: The Work
  Appendix

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  Being a missionary in Ivory Coast, West Africa is not only about dangers, hard work, and culture shock, interspersed with moments of high joy and deep sorrow; it is life found in the small and daily things, the quotidian experience which renders familiar a vastly different way of life, a life at the edge of the village.

  This book collects Lisa Leidenfrost’s sketches of missionary life, compiled from letters sent home from Ivory Coast to her church in the United States, and they tell of the ordinary and extraordinary, the solemn and the playful, the mundane and the exotic, together creating a down-to-earth portrait of the Gospel at work in a family and society.

  For over sixteen years, Lisa Leidenfrost has lived, served, and raised four children in Ivory Coast with her husband, Csaba Leidenfrost, a Wycliffe translator to the Bakwe people.

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