Goitse Leburu: Botswana's first female foreign missionary to the Americas

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What would make a beautiful, single young woman want to travel halfway around the world to become a missionary among a completely different people?

A society that is light-years more sophisticated than that of her humble origins in Serowe.

"It's a calling" is the simple answer that Goitseone Leburu will give you.  This calling is now taking her across the turbulent oceans separating Africa and the Americas.  She becomes the first female missionary to the West ever to come out of the Forward in Faith Church, and possibly out of the Pentecostal movement in Botswana.

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