Today I visited a family from the Central African Republic. The languages they speak are Songo and French. The family hosts a house church. This was the first time I ever went to a house church! A house church is when a few families meet together in a place like a house or an apartment. This family had a small apartment that everyone squeezed into. They did everything you normally do in church except they don’t have a church building that they meet in. They said that this way it’s easier for the people to get to a church where people can speak a language they know.

There were people from three different countries and they were speaking in six different languages! We sang some songs in French, Songo, Swahili, English, Kinyarwanda, and Kibembe. My dad was very surprised when they asked him to preach and his sermon had to get interpreted from English to Swahili to French. They also did an offering and they had a message for the youth. After the service, I was able to present a French Bible to the family. They were very grateful to get a Bible in a language they can understand. It was like a ceremony and everyone wanted to take a picture with the new Bible!