My sermon from this morning: Colossians 1:18-20

When Matt came to Africa to meet my parents for the first time RCI dazzled the world by having a coup which eventually devolved into an all out civil war. My mom and dad, at that point living in Abidjan were evacuated three different times before they gave up and moved to Kenya. ... Ouattara responded by also swearing himself in, selecting a government and taking up residence in the very nice Hotel du Golfâ€"one of my preferred places to go swimming on earth. ...