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ground, as they could pick up diseases. So, unlike their village chickens, which foraged all day for themselves, these chickens needed to be fed and watered regularly. I hoped that by association this would also give them an incentive to study more regularly, which they might continue later on as parish ministers. Apart from this I hoped that they would earn for themselves some well-deserved pocket money.

I kept the little chicks in Oeba until they were old enough to go into the pens at Tarus. The great day came. First I had to pass each student's construction, then they received ten chicks each. I hoped that all were females, as ordered. The students were already looking forward to the day whey they were going to lay eggs, and I can imagine there was some competition among them to see whose chickens would produce the first egg. The feed was mainly maize with some dried fish, all milled at Itja's agricultural school. I had no trouble selling their eggs, including to Lisa, as they were guaranteed fresh, and a good size.

When the egg business flourished, the other students probably wished that they had also participated in this scheme. But they also saw that there was quite a bit of work involved.

In October 1971 the Japanese Theologian Kosuke Koyama visited GMIT and our school at Tarus. As we entered the school ground we came past the row of chicken pens. I had to explain to him what they were and that they belonged to the students. I then took him into our class, introduced him to the students, and he began his lecture: "What do you see when you see chickens?"

I translated for him, and one of the students replied: "When I see chickens I see eggs. I can sell them and make money."

"You are a good business man. We need this kind in our church. What about the others, what do you see?"

"When I see chickens I see God. God created chickens. He created them for us to eat."

"You are a good theologian and obviously a lover of fried chicken. But you still need to study the meaning of this great word 'creation'. And you?"

"When I see chickens I see the difference between man and animal. A chicken doesn't have understanding as I do. We are very superior to chickens."

"You are a good philosopher." Then he continued telling the students that they had seen something more in chickens, it was not just a chicken, and rice was not just rice. Everything had something more. When they saw chickens, and saw only chickens, their life would be dry and uninteresting. People would not come to them as ministers and listen to the message of Jesus Christ if they were 'dry and uninteresting' persons. They were now studying theology, and theology required the mind to see something more in the ordinary things. They must be able to see the power of the Creator himself in a

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