Bike Shop Missionaries

While we wait for bicycles to arrive and clear customs we are students at a missionary training school. To qualify as a missionary in the minds of the local people all you have to be is white; so we qualify! While most of the people in the school have aspirations to become missionaries somewhere, Ron and I, by virtue of the bicycles and what God told Ron to do with them, are missionaries. So what do missionaries need to know? The local culture so that the gospel is preached in the context of village life without damaging the social structure. The languages: the local tribal language and the colonial language of Portuguese. And practical experience.