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I was in Moscow, Idaho this past week, and a gentleman came up to me in a restaurant. He recognized me, came up to me in a restaurant and he greeted me. And I knew he was greeting me, but I had no idea what he was saying. And then he said, do you do not understand that? I said, no, I don't. He had greeted me in Swahili because he had been to Kenya, and he learned a greeting in Swahili.

And I said, oh, okay.

And he looked at me and he said, well, weren't you living in South Africa?

And I said, well, no, actually, we were living in Zambia, but neither place speaks Swahili.

And, you know, we kind of looked awkwardly at one another and then he went on his way. But that that happened. That that happened so often. People

just sort of make these generalizations. Another thing that was always a little comical to me is,

you know, people would find out that we were living in Zambia and they would say, oh, do you

know so-and-so from Uganda? Or do you know so-and-so from Uganda?

Or do you know so-and-so from, you know, Ghana or wherever?

Places, you know, more than a thousand miles away from where we lived.

And I would try to help them understand the nature of the question.

And I'd say, that would be kind of like you meeting somebody from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada,

and asking them if they know somebody in Chihuahua, Mexico, because it's on the same continent.

And then they just, oh, then they kind of register. But then there's the other side of it where people would ask people over in zambia would ask about the church in america

what's the church like in america and i would just have to try to explain to them that we're 50 states that the church in Maine

and the church in Texas, you can't answer that question, although we try to. And then I would

come over here and people would say, well, well, what's the church

like in Africa? Not even Zambia, right? Like what's the church like in Africa? All 55 countries on the

largest continent on earth. And people fully expect an answer to a question that broad.

Because we're used to talking about the church like that.

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