Sacrifices central to Landuma culture
Missionary Ans Westerveld has noted the different forms of sacrifice the Landuma people practice while attending their weddings and funerals.
Traditionally, the mother of the bride cooks a meal as a form of sacrifice the day before the wedding. While the neighborhood kids eat the food, the mother and other family members pray to their god. Once the kids finish eating, they break up cola nuts into pieces and pass them out to the kids.
In the Landuma language, pray stands for ask. In exchange for doing something good, they ask for a favor. The bride's mother asked their god for a conflict-free wedding.
The Landuma people also sacrifice meals when somebody dies. They cook a meal for the person who died on the day of the funeral then three days, a week, 40 days, and 100 days after the funeral. As they eat the meal, they pray to ask their god if the person can go to heaven.
"It is good to study their lives and to find out how they think and how they view their god. I do go to funerals but not to their sacrifice rituals for the death," Ans wrote.
"I can't wait to share about Christ's sacrifice with my friends," she wrote.
Please pray for Ans as she continues to be an example of Christ to the Landuma people. Pray for the Landuma people as they learn more about Jesus' great sacrifice for them.
Traditionally, the mother of the bride cooks a meal as a form of sacrifice the day before the wedding. While the neighborhood kids eat the food, the mother and other family members pray to their god. Once the kids finish eating, they break up cola nuts into pieces and pass them out to the kids.
In the Landuma language, pray stands for ask. In exchange for doing something good, they ask for a favor. The bride's mother asked their god for a conflict-free wedding.
The Landuma people also sacrifice meals when somebody dies. They cook a meal for the person who died on the day of the funeral then three days, a week, 40 days, and 100 days after the funeral. As they eat the meal, they pray to ask their god if the person can go to heaven.
"It is good to study their lives and to find out how they think and how they view their god. I do go to funerals but not to their sacrifice rituals for the death," Ans wrote.
"I can't wait to share about Christ's sacrifice with my friends," she wrote.
Please pray for Ans as she continues to be an example of Christ to the Landuma people. Pray for the Landuma people as they learn more about Jesus' great sacrifice for them.