Recently, a Christian pastor from east Africa visited in our area to inspect the recent printing of a Scripture portion into his native language, Swahili, spoken by approximately 100 million Tanzanians.  While he was here, Titus shared a short message from Jeremiah chapter one (vv. 1-10).  He pointed out that Jeremiah's mission included going to the "nations" and "kingdoms."   He also described how so often the work requires more destroying (unlearning of lies and false teaching) than building ("root out," "pull down," "destroy," and "throw down" - v. 10).  Because the enemy has worked so effectively, we often have twice as much clearing out and deprogramming to perform before we can even begin to build and to plant (v. 10).  When you renovate a room, you take the old stuff out; clean, paint, repair, etc, and then put new stuff in.  Additionally, he used one of Jesus' parables (the wheat and the tares, Matthew 13:24-43) to demonstrate that the wicked one does much of his work while the farmer is sleeping.  "Where did all these tares come from?" asks the farmer (Christian worker).  "The enemy did it while you were sleeping" explains the Lord of the harvest.  Titus' message was both insightful and spiritually challenging.  We are grateful he was able to speak to us from God's Word as well as tell us about his country.