He said "No," but she said, "Yes" to volunteers from Open Baptist Church, Gaborone, Botswana (in south-central Africa), who were delivering food boxes to families as one of their Inasmuch Day projects.  He is a traditional witch-doctor.  She is his wife and normally would not have gone against his authority, BUT she had already seen the love expressed by the church through the Inasmuch volunteers. 

Though the witch-doctor's wife had never attended the church, when she saw the volunteers painting a security wall in her community, she grabbed a roller and joined the effort.  Later that day, other volunteers from the church showed up at her home offering a box of food. Without hesitating, she let them in and accepted the gift -- over the objections of her husband.  

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Something extraordinary happened in Lowndes County, Alabama, one of the poorest counties in the state, where many traditional prejudices are alive and well. A dozen churches of various denominations and races conducted their first Inasmuch United.  One person called this reconciling event "ground-breaking."  

The idea that churches would work together was unheard of in the county
 -- before the Inasmuch United.  Certainly white churches did not work with black congregations.  "Even the black churches didn't work together!" says Rev. Sylvester Hardey, Pastor of Jonathan's House of Prayer.