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We live amongst a tribal group known as the Dem who are located in the mountains of Southeast Asia. We are here to learn their language, translate the Bible into their language, and teach them about God. If you would you like to receive our monthly newsletter, send us an email at: dylan_vanrensburg@ntm.org

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Idul Adha

Idul Adha is holiday "celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened to provide him with a ram to sacrifice instead." You can read more about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha

The mosques were singing all night, and then all over the city today, goats and cows were being slaughtered. We no longer live across the street from a mosque, but there is a school by our house that was sacrificing a cow in a field nearby.
They skinned it and chopped it up right there, and then split up the meat for all the people.
We explained to Raquel that that's where hamburgers and biltong come from:)
Gideon was almost more popular than the cow.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

yikes. Good things Gideon is getting lots of practice for smiling at the camera- now he'll be ready when he comes to see us!

The Spors said...

what a cutie!! please tell him to stop growing until I see him. thanks.