| At the Edge of the Village Contributor(s): Leidenfrost, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1591280176 ISBN-13: 9781591280170 Publisher: Canon Press OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Travel | Africa - West |
| Dewey: 266.009 |
| LCCN: 2003026787 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - West Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Being a missionary in Ivory Coast, West Africa is not only about dangers, hard work, and culture shock, interspersed with moments of high joy and deep sorrow; it is life found in the small and daily things, the quotidian experience which renders familiar a vastly different way of life, a life at the edge of the village. This book collects Lisa Leidenfrost's sketches of missionary life, compiled from letters sent home from Ivory Coast to her church in the United States, and they tell of the ordinary and extraordinary, the solemn and the playful, the mundane and the exotic, together creating a down-to-earth portrait of the Gospel at work in a family and society. For over sixteen years, Lisa Leidenfrost has lived, served, and raised four children in Ivory Coast with her husband, Csaba Leidenfrost, a Wycliffe translator to the Bakwe people. |