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Racism, Dysentery, Colonialism, and Relief: The Missionary Life with Joseph Lear (Sr.)

Talking missions in one of the harshest places on earth: the Sahel of West Africa

The Sahel of West Africa is one of the harshest places on earth to live: desertification, food and water scarcity, malaria and dysentery, and political upheaval.

That’s where my parents became missionaries in the early 90s. And it’s where I grew up running the streets, slingshotting lizards, and playing soccer until I dropped from dehydration.

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This conversation with my father only scratches the surface, but gives a good intro to the lives we lived. That, and there’s a lot about what it means to be a missionary, what the gospel is all about, and why my parents did what they did.

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A picture of the SAHEL. Those aren’t clouds. It’s dust.

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