Pray without
ceasing. I Thessalonians 5:17
Nigeria
Ndewo, Hello,
Today we are going to “visit” Nigeria. We’ll start off with a few facts in brief
about Nigeria and some things I found interesting about the country. I also
have some books, which I’ve enjoyed, that I want to introduce to you.
Let’s get started:
Ø The
capital of Nigeria is Lagos.
Ø English
is the main language but there are over 250 other languages also spoken in
Nigeria.
Ø One
in every 7 Africans lives in Nigeria
Ø Around
201 million people call Nigeria home.
Ø Over
50% of Nigerians are Muslim.
Ø Nigerian’s
basic unit of money is called the Naira.
Ø Nigeria
gained its independence in 1960.
Ø Nigeria
is home to the endangered white-throated monkey.
I have three books that I want to introduce you
to.
We’ll start with the center book: Hattie Gardner: Determined Adventurer. I decided to do this post about Nigeria
because of this book. It is a shorter book, with only 64 pages, so it doesn’t
take long to read. This book shares the story of Hattie Gardner’s life and how
God used in many different areas and then called her to serve Him in Nigeria,
how she at last relented to the idea of going to Africa and ended up living there
until she was over 70. This is a
wonderful story of how God chooses unlikely people and uses them in amazing
ways.
The next one I’ll talk about is the one on the
left: A Good Different. This book is
another book by Harvey Yoder and tells the story of Musikali and Joyce and
their journey from sin and hurt into God’s love and healing. The book is set in
Kenya, but I’m sharing it here since for one thing, I already talked about
Kenya Click here to see my Kenyan Post, and also, it is an amazing story of the miracles God uses to draw His
children to Himself and demonstrates to us how that “in every nation he that
feareth Him (God)… is accepted with Him.” Acts 10:35. It also can open our eyes to the spiritual
needs of the people in African countries.
And finally the book on the right: Escape to the Jungle. This is a collection of Missionary stories taken from SIM NOW magazine.
The stories are set in the Congo, Ethiopia, the Red Sea, Nigeria, Liberia, and Somalia. They are stories that share the hardships and
victories, discouraging times and joyful occasions in many missionaries’ lives,
and always the power of prayer. All of these books tell of the work that God is
doing in Africa and a key part for us is to lift up the missionaries in
prayer.
But, if you want to do more than just pray for the
missionaries, if you would like to learn more about who some of the people are
who are spreading the good news to Nigeria, would like to know what all they do
or want to support them in more ways than just pray check out SIM International. This organization is working to help build churches up, to
spread the Gospel, and to lead more people to Christ.
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Our
card project for today doesn’t really have a name. I’m calling them tin foil cards although they
really aren’t made out of tinfoil as you will soon see. These are really easy
to do even for you people who think you’d rather just watch.😁
What
you’ll need:
Paper
cutter (to cut paper)
Card
Stock cut into 5”x 6 ½” pieces
Tin
foil
Scissors
Pencil
Markers
Tissues
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So first you fold your card stock in half so it’s like a card.
Next
you cut a shape out of tin foil. The
pencil is so you can draw the shape before you cut it out, in case you can’t
just eyeball it.
Now
lay the tinfoil shape onto your card where you want it. Make as small mark with
the marker, I do about an inch at a time then quickly wipe the marker off the
tinfoil onto the card with the tissue.
Go all the way around the shape and you have, in this case, a heart. If
it doesn’t show up good enough the first time you can always go over it again.
This
is how I did the flower. Same thing of
marking a small area with marker and then wiping it off. You can also see how the yellow doesn’t
really show up in the 3rd picture so I just made yellow marks for
the center. Yellow doesn’t show up well when you do this.
For
the rain drop one I used the same piece of tinfoil over and over and just
filled up the card front.
Like I said
before these are really easy. You can
make one in just a few minutes and then you’re ready to go. I also have a PDF with the patterns but since
I don’t know how to put that in here you’ll
have to let me know if you want it. And if you know how to connect a PDF to a
blog you can tell me that too.😉
Ka
ọ dị, until next time.
Sources: World Book Encyclopedia
SIM International
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