Orality Journal Volume 3, Number 1, 2014 | Page 26

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Rabia would help us understand
her culture and beliefs.
I had a harder time finding a
language partner and struggled
learning the language. I prayed and
God provided. A Korean-American
missionary named Cha prayed for
and loved one Sweater village for
over 15 years. She saw very little fruit
until the last two years of her time
there. The families in the village
loved her and she loved them. There
were six little girls in that village
who Cha taught English. When we
arrived, these girls were now young
women in their late teens and early
twenties. The oldest of the group
was named Rubina. Rubina agreed
to be my language teacher and
to help us create a Bible story set
for her people. Shortly after this,

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Rubina became a follower of Christ
and was baptized. The other girls
soon followed.
Rubina was our person of peace.
She opened the door for us to her
village and to her people. Because
of the love Cha had shown to
Rubina’s family, her family loved
Christians. They let us live life
with them. We worked in the field,
attended weddings, and celebrated
holidays with them.
One night while we were staying in
their home, we heard the saddest
sound I had ever heard in my entire
life. A man had just died in the
village. His wife began singing a
song of sorrow loud enough for
the whole village to hear at three
o’clock in the morning. When