Do This in My Memory

By Erik Tryggestad

Worship with Christians in Togo and you’ll likely drink fruit of the vine from a calabash—a hollowed-out gourd cut in half.

It’s equally likely that you’ll drink it in a mud building with a thatched roof—or under a tree, said Brett Emerson, a missionary who works with the Kabiye people in this West African nation.

Compared to most churches in the U.S., communion in Togo may seem informal, Emerson said. But the Kabiye consider the Lord’s Supper to be a time of celebration.