She sat expectantly on the fourth row in the primary tent at camp meeting. Her black eyes and straight, black hair identified her as from an Asian background. When I talked about children in Asia having to help their parents with housework, she nodded vigorously. As I began to describe doing laundry by hand, she moved her hands in a scrubbing motion. When she volunteered to answer a question, I asked her how she knew these things. “That is how we did it in the Philippines,” she replied.
It was interesting to see the mixing of cultures at our camp meetings in Canada. It is a reflection of the changing mix of people in our communities. North America has absorbed large numbers of immigrants from Asia, India, Africa and Central and South America. This means that we must all become cross-cultural missionaries in our own city, state or province. We must understand that there are many ways of looking at things. Each day, let’s try to learn more about how others think so we can better know how to explain Jesus’ invitation to them. Let us each pray for the special gift of God’s love so people of other cultures will know we love them. They deserve to know that they are God’s children, too.

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