Source: Scott A., Mobile Ministry Forum, October 30, 2015
I love farm animals. There are sheep, goats, horses, and cows in my area (North Africa), and quite a few of each in my neighborhood. I try to go jogging every day I can, and there are trees with big leaves along the way that the sheep and goats just love—these leaves are like candy to them. I’ll pull off a lot of big leaves and I know where all the sheep and goats live, and they anxiously await my arrival for their treats. I am known throughout our neighborhood to the locals as “Monsieur Mouton” (Mr. Sheep).
It is Tabaski season right now, when the locals celebrate Abraham’s supposed sacrifice of Ishmael. A ram without defect must be sacrificed during the holiday to purify and redeem the family. A partner organization here makes microSD audio cards with special messages for the local people that is appropriate for Tabaski but introduces them to Jesus. These little cards come with an adapter that allows them to be used in a radio and computer as well as a cell phone. I picked up a bunch of these from a missionary friend in three of the local languages here and handed them out to the guards, merchants, and others along my way.
There is a Malian carpenter with two rams tied up in the back that I visit regularly. I gave the Malian an SD card this past Thursday. When I stopped in Friday, he rushed up to me and said that he’d sat up until 1:00am listening to the messages. Later on that morning, he’d called all his friends in and they all listened to the gospel message over his radio! He then told me that he is anxious to take the radio to the village where he can share the message in the village.