The Old Testament story of how the priests of the Israelites would "lay hands" on a goat symbolically transferring the sins of the people onto the animal. Then the goat was let out into the desert to carry the sins away from the community. Thus the term "scape goat" was born.
We give away donated goats in Rwanda. We have given 146 donated goats to needy families. A goat can change the life of a family here. A $30 goat would be like giving someone 1 months salary in the U.S. The goats first born will be given to another needy family ....so the gift continues to give. Every time we give away goats I am reminded of the scape goat from the Old Testament. I pray that as the Israelites experienced a kind of "new start" that our neighbors in Rwanda would also have a new start from a new heart through Jesus.
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