BCM missionary Lois Lass was just turning thirteen years old the last time she’d set foot in her birthplace—and her heart home. Lois was born in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) to missionary parents Ray and Wanda Florence. Lois remembers her childhood growing up along Africa’s Great Lakes, both in the Congo and neighboring Burundi, as idyllic. “It was a happy time in my life, and I didn’t see the poverty. It was just how people lived. Mud houses with grass roofs, dirt floors and just one room. No beds or furniture, just mats. No running…
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