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March 11, 2006

Monsieur Bertholon

Met a French missionary this week who I found really inspiring. Monsieur Bertholon is in his seventies and used to live in the north of Burkina Faso. He owned camels, and used to travel round villages on camelback, ministering to Fulani and Tuareg families. We ate a meal together and he spoke in an extremely moving and poetic way about God's love for the nomadic tribes of the Sahel. French is a sublime language for speaking about God, and God is a sublime person to be spoken about. It's nice to feel inspired now and again, isn't it?

Posted by sahelsteve at March 11, 2006 07:24 PM