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This week we will explain the #YasukeProject ..The Lion Called Yasuke

In 1581, a towering African man arrived in Japan and changed history.
His name was Yasuke.
He was real.
He stood in the halls of power.
He wore the armor of elite status.
He fought beside legends.
Bought and brought as a slave by Arab merchants and Christian missionaries, he was seen as nothing but cargo.
But one man saw differently, the legendary warlord Oda Nobunaga....
This is a man that the Arab Muslims and Christian missionary called a pagan and seek to convert.
Yet He looked beyond skin, beyond geography, beyond the narrow prejudices of his time.
He saw Yasuke’s strength, his loyalty, his character and he elevated him. Yasuke was granted a sword, a house, a stipend, and the rare honor of riding at the warlord’s right hand.
He dined at Nobunaga’s private table.
This dignity, this merit-based respect was systematically denied to him by the very forces that brought him to Japan.

The question today is how do we truly serve GOD?

#YasukeProject #WeMove #SPECProject #LekeeLekee

This week we will explain the #YasukeProject ..The Lion Called Yasuke In 1581, a towering African m...

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Comfort Yako Asala: What an Irony, the very people who claimed to be the exclusive agents of "God"—the traders and missionaries—treated a human being as property. Meanwhile, a man they dismissed as a "pagan" (Oda Nobunaga) was the one who actually demonstrated the universal values of dignity, equality, and respect.
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