Kandie got up earlier this morning to pick up more mangoes to give Timothy and his family before Iddrisu got to work. This big tree next to the house has been dropping mangoes like lice on a hen’s roost. I was working on the new bike yesterday when all of a sudden a mango thumped my gourd (head) which really caught me by surprise! Timothy was very pleased with the fruit.
Our travels lead us to the village of Wadiig which is northeast of Yendi. It took us 60 minutes to get to the place. The church is small and they are meeting in a school block. Boy, was that school room hot! The temperature here at the house was 112 degrees F with a heat index of 117 degrees F. Now you can see why I said it was hot in the school room!!! It does not have any electricity or fans. The adults attending services were less than 10 but the children numbered 25. I again used the parable about the Good Samaritan from Luke 10 for my lesson. It’s a story that children can relate to as well as adults. The children liked it when I pretended to be the priest and the Levite and acted out dodging the injured man. The church was very happy to receive the usual gifts that we bring; a bench, cups, juice, bible, pad, pen, and bread.
The chief of the village attends the church so we didn’t have to go anywhere to give him his kola. He is nearly blind and uses a long metal rod to assist in his walking.
We discussed what the church was going to do with their half built cement block building that is a decade old. They have decided to make it into a pavilion with open sides. It was agreed that we would help with the metal veranda poles, some wood, some roofing sheets, and nails if they cut the bush wood for the rafters and pay for the carpenter.
Kandie had let the church leader at Waddig know last fall that she was on the lookout for the round stones the women use for grinding food and for cow dung plastering the outside walls of the houses. Oh my goodness, she was flooded with stones. Every child that could find a stone brought it to her. She pays 5 Cedis (.50) for a stone. She bought 15-20 stones and she rejected about the same number.
We took a different way back to Yendi. The road was pretty bad but we needed to stop at Brother Divine’s house which is on the way, to give him some info for the church registration renewals. It took about 30 minutes to get our business taken care of. Divine’s dog and chickens were on the veranda with us trying to stay out of the sun and heat.
Hope you all had a good Lord’s Day. Ghana isn’t on daylight savings time so we didn’t have to reset the clocks. Now we are 5 hours time difference Ghana and Alabama time. God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
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