In some ways it is surprising it is only 24 cities, towns and villages in DR Congo with a ward or branch. I have hope that that number will go up significantly.
I an looking forward to General Conference and new temples being announced. I no linger feel I have a good sense of which temples might be announced.
@JPL, I hope the number of cities reached in the DRC increases as well. One of the major challenges is that a significant portion of the population of the DRC lives in the eastern portions of the country along the Great Rift Valley, which has been one of the most turbulent and dangerous areas on earth for the past 30 years as conflict between various warlords, paramilitaries, competing ethnic groups, and the states of Uganda, Rwanda, and the DRC have led to virtually non-stop violence there. It would be wonderful to see the church become established in cities like Bukavu, Goma, and Butembo in that region. However, doing so would be pretty difficult, since sending missionaries there would be at best only slightly less dangerous than sending them to Syria. Of course, Haiti has devolved into a state of incredibly dangerous violence in the past year or so, but as far as I know there are still missionaries there, so it is not impossible.
It has been years since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has sent non-Haitians as missionaries to Haiti. The general assumption in that locals can function in violence. There are times when violence drives off locals. The film "Freetown" illustrated this.
On one hand Elder Kyungu opened the Mbuji-Maye mission just as a major civil war broke out in that part of DR Congo. I do not know how that level 9f violence compared to that in the eastern regions of the country. I have tried to read books on the wars in DR Congo but never really made progress
In some ways it is surprising it is only 24 cities, towns and villages in DR Congo with a ward or branch. I have hope that that number will go up significantly.
ReplyDeleteI an looking forward to General Conference and new temples being announced. I no linger feel I have a good sense of which temples might be announced.
@JPL, I hope the number of cities reached in the DRC increases as well. One of the major challenges is that a significant portion of the population of the DRC lives in the eastern portions of the country along the Great Rift Valley, which has been one of the most turbulent and dangerous areas on earth for the past 30 years as conflict between various warlords, paramilitaries, competing ethnic groups, and the states of Uganda, Rwanda, and the DRC have led to virtually non-stop violence there. It would be wonderful to see the church become established in cities like Bukavu, Goma, and Butembo in that region. However, doing so would be pretty difficult, since sending missionaries there would be at best only slightly less dangerous than sending them to Syria. Of course, Haiti has devolved into a state of incredibly dangerous violence in the past year or so, but as far as I know there are still missionaries there, so it is not impossible.
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It has been years since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has sent non-Haitians as missionaries to Haiti. The general assumption in that locals can function in violence. There are times when violence drives off locals. The film "Freetown" illustrated this.
ReplyDeleteOn one hand Elder Kyungu opened the Mbuji-Maye mission just as a major civil war broke out in that part of DR Congo. I do not know how that level 9f violence compared to that in the eastern regions of the country. I have tried to read books on the wars in DR Congo but never really made progress