{"id":1227,"date":"2012-12-24T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2014-01-24T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T23:43:06","slug":"christmas-celebrations-among-the-dao-of-mozambique-dec-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/2012\/12\/24\/christmas-celebrations-among-the-dao-of-mozambique-dec-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Celebrations among the Dao of Mozambique Dec.,2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On a past Christmas, the Dao people of Mozambique celebrated Christmas with three days of joyful feasting and testimonies about God\u2019s provision of a Savior. “If the day that Jesus\u2019 cord was cut had never taken place, how different things would be for us Dao people today,” said Paatoma, one of the believers. “We would even now be living as if we didn\u2019t have any eyes. In fact we would be as a person without any head at all because we would be as those who couldn\u2019t see, hear about, believe or even follow the good trail that Jesus brought us, that trail that leads to eternal life.”<\/p>\n

Many Daos had traveled for two days to see what the celebration was about. They came clan by clan into the village, hooting and hollering in typical Dao fashion, dancing in circles while holding their bows, arrows, machetes and various weapons above their heads and hitting the bamboo shafts of their arrows with the palms of their hands. This signifies that a great celebration is beginning — the “Yesus onee daata nagoo” celebration — the day Jesus\u2019 cord was cut, the day of His birth. They sang songs of praise to their Creator for sending His only Son to die for them.<\/p>\n

One sobering fact was that many of those from far-away villages had not yet had the opportunity to understand the Gospel message. Apiyawogi put his arm around one of the men who traveled many miles to attend the celebration and said, “They are here because they want to know why we celebrate. They have come because they want to understand how they can follow the trail that leads to the Creator\u2019s good place above the sky. They want to hear about Jesus.” For the rest of this story go to: http:\/\/usa.ntm.org\/mission-news\/9092\/3-day-feast-celebrates-jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a past Christmas, the Dao people of Mozambique celebrated Christmas with three days of joyful feasting and testimonies about God\u2019s provision of a Savior. “If the day that Jesus\u2019 cord was cut had never taken place, how different things would be for us Dao people today,” said Paatoma, one of the believers. “We would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tribal-updates","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}