Among the Unreached (DTS Part 3)
After three weeks in Benguela, we headed out on a 20 hour bus ride to the bottom of Angola to work with local missionaries among a semi-unreached people group called the Himba. (Get ready! This was hands-down my favorite week of outreach!) Stopped for about an hour at a police station where they checked our large pile of passports. No fancy bus for us- rather, packed in, bags and all. Sabinu and Juliana are an Angolan couple who felt called to the Himba people group over twenty years ago. Since then, they have faithfully worked in a small community called Chitado. They faced health scares, suspicion from the government, loneliness, lacking of good schooling for their children, and mistrust from the very tribe they came to work with. The couple had to learn an entirely new language over the first years, then formed relationships in order to foster opportunities to meaningfully share the gospel. Thirteen years passed before a single person gave their life to Christ. Sabinu and Juliana fo...