Hello , South Korea!

안녕, 한국. 또한 오신 것을 환영합니다이 블로그를 방문 쉰한 다른 나라에서 독자의 그룹. 난 당신이 게시물에 유용하거나 의미의 일부를 찾을 바랍니다.
"번역이 페이지에서" "총 페이지뷰"바로 위에 가제트 카운터 한국어로 직접이 블로그의 영어 텍스트를 번역하는 기능이 있습니다.

Hello, Ethiopia!

Update on 4 July 2026: The number of countries is now 152.

Hello,  Ethiopia.  Welcome to the group of readers from fifty other countries who also visit this blog.  I hope you find some of the posts useful or meaningful.

The “Translate This Page” gadget directly above the “Total Pageviews” Counter has the capability of translating the English text of this blog directly into Arabic.   I apologize, but I do not have the capability of translation into or from Amharic.

مرحبا ، إثيوبيا. مرحبا بكم في مجموعة من القراء من البلدان الأخرى أيضا الخمسين الذين يزورون هذا بلوق. وآمل أن تجد بعض من وظائف مفيدة أو ذات مغزى.
"ترجم هذه الصفحة" أداة مباشرة فوق "عرض صفحة المجموع" كاونتر لديها القدرة على ترجمة النص الانكليزي من هذا بلوق مباشرة إلى اللغة العربية. أعتذر ، لكنني لم يكن لديك القدرة على ترجمة أو من الأمهرية.

Size Does Not Matter

"Being a great church is not about being a big church.  A great church keeps focused on spreading the gospel.  A small church that spreads the gospel is a great church.  A big church is not a great church if it's not doing that."  Rev. Mike Shaw, elected 17 Nov. 2010 as President of the Alabama Baptist Convention.  Shaw is the pastor of The First Baptist Church of Pelham (Alabama, USA).

Hello, Hungary! There Are Now Fifty Countries Reading This Blog!

Hello, Magyarország. Üdvözöljük a csoport olvasók 40-9 más országokban, akik szintén látogasson el a blogot. Remélem találsz néhány hozzászólás hasznos vagy értelmes.
A "Translate this page" modul közvetlenül felette a "Total oldalmegtekintés" Counter képes fordításának az angol nyelvű szöveg ebben a blogban közvetlenül a magyar.

Kimbanguism

"Kimbanguism

In the first half on the 20th century, prophetic movements sprang up. Their nature was both anti-colonial and Christian, and led to a rigorous crackdown by the authorities.

Simon Kimbangu was the prophet of largest of these movements. He was born in a village near Kinshasa, raised and educated by a Protestant Christian mission and trained to become a priest. In April 1921, at the age of 39, he reportedly had a religious vision of Jesus Christ, who called on him to reconvert his people and dedicate his life to Christ. Kimbangu chose to try to ignore the vision, and fled to Kinshasa where he abandoned his life as a priest and took to menial work. More visions came, and eventually he heeded the calling and returned to his home village and started to devote his life to Christ. Soon after, he is reported to have healed a sick woman by laying his hands on her. Dozens of apparent miracles were subsequently performed by Kimbangu, and he gained followers from surrounding villages and towns. The official Catholic organizations protested to the authorities, and the Protestant church abandoned him. The economic effects of Kimbangu's ministry were being felt, with thousands of Congolese leaving their work to listen to Kimbangu speak. In June the Belgians arrested him for inciting revolution and civil disobedience. Four months later he was sentenced to death. After an international outcry, Albert I of Belgium commuted the sentence to life impisonment. He died 30 years later in prison, in 1951.

Colonial authorities assumed his movement would wither after his imprisonment and death, but the church continued to flourish underground, and was an effective weapon in the fight against colonialism. In the post-colonial era, its record has been more mixed. Instead of banning the church, Mobutu used a far more effective method of neutralizing it: namely co-opting the church and giving it an official status. Kimbanguism has now spread across the country, and now has branches in nine of the surrounding countries, making it the most popular "native" form of Christianity in Africa. Followers do not smoke, drink alcohol and abhor violence. Monogamy is practiced."

From Wikipedia article, "Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo," under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike and the GNU Free Documentation Licenses.

The Kimbanguist church is a member of the World Council of Churches  and is officially known as Eglise de Jésus Christ sur la Terre par Son Envoyé Spécial Simon Kimbangu (Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by His Special Envoy Simon Kimbangu).

Hello, Malaysia!

Halo, Malaysia. Selamat datang di kelompok pembaca 40-8 negara-negara lain yang juga melawat blog ini. Saya berharap anda menemukan beberapa posting kepada atau bermakna.
"Terjemahkan halaman ini" Gadget terus di atas "Display Laman Jumlah" Counter memiliki kemampuan menterjemah teks Inggeris dari blog ini terus ke Melayu.

Light Bulb Joke: Missionaries

How many missionaries does it take to change a light bulb?

One, with the help of his wife and a local native.