Around 4am the electricity went off for some unknown reason but it came back on around 6:30 am. The bedroom was cool enough that I didn’t get up and turn on the generator. Such is life around northern Ghana.
We visited the Church that meets at Jegrido this morning. This saved Timothy from driving his motorcycle to the compound. The road we turn on to go to Jegrido is about 500 yds. from Timothy’s house . This is Timothy’s home village and where Daniel, Timothy’s older brother , worships and is one of the church leaders.
When we arrived at the building most of the people had assembled. The Church building is a medium size building, the size of 4 rooms 15’X15’ each, but for some reason the windows were blocked up some years ago using decorative cement blocks that do not permit much air flow through the building. I was sweating bullets the whole time during worship and after services during the naming ceremony. There were a total of 84 people that attended services. For my lesson I used the last sentence in James 1:27 where it is said to keep oneself unspotted (unstained) from the world. I used myself as an example when I eat soup or stew and I get it all over my clothes which stain them. If we are sloppy with sin it can do the same to our spiritual robes.
Timothy had informed us yesterday evening that after services there would be a naming ceremony for a 1.5 month old baby girl whose parents attend Jegrido. The mother was wearing a traditional white dress as well as the baby. The father was a big burly guy wearing a light traditional outfit; the shirt tails go down almost to the floor and the pants were the same color of material.
Before leaving the village we stopped by the chief’s house to greet him. This is no ordinary chief; he’s a paramount chief of the Konkomba tribe. He has a nice personality. Kandie is always asking him for a story to tell our grandchildren and he always obliges. His short story today was how horses learned to dance for the chiefs.
One guy asked us if we would allow him to hitch a ride back to Kulkpeni so we did. Timothy was acquainted with the man. He had attended services at Tamale while Timothy attended school some years ago but he hadn’t been attending at Jegrido. Kandie encouraged him to go to church at Jegrido when he is in the village.
Tonight at Kulkpeni our topical study was about polygamy. This subject always brings a lot of discussion with it. Usually this is one of the arguments for polygamy; if more women are born every year than men how will all the women get a husband. What got the young men’s goats was when we brought up the subject of women having multiple husbands. These are the kinds of questions these young people are subjected to amongst their friends and colleagues. The people in the class seem to really enjoy it.
Hope you have a good safe holiday weekend. May God bless you and our country!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
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