CHAPTER 7

July 28, 2007 by Roger.

A HOME FOR THE REFUGEE

Every Christian is a spiritual refugee,
with citizenship in heaven,
while living on earth.

Living in Latin America, the West Indies and Africa for over four decades has
changed my thinking and my culture. I would no longer consider myself an American
since I left the American culture in 1974 in order to sign up for world citizenship. This
does not say that I have forsaken all cultural links to America. I have some American
baggage. It means, however, that both myself and America have since changed so much
that I feel like a foreigner when I travel to America. One can never go home after being
away from home for so long.
When I first left America for the rest of the world there were some things that were
initially quite challenging to my American culture. One of those things was dealing
with world poverty. The other was dealing with the refugee, a human phenomenon that
was entirely foreign to my American culture. I have since come to better understand
both, though I must confess that there is no fix to either situation.
So you can understand why I once sat stunned in Malawi, listening to my brother,
my fellow Rwandan evangelist who had two weeks before fled in fear with his wife and
three children from Kigali, Rwanda. Soldiers were walking down streets telling jokes
while whacking the heads off everyone they could find. The beheadings turned into a
relentless slaughter of men, women and children. The hundreds of dead in a few days
turned into thousands. The thousands turned into tens of thousands, and then, hundreds
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