Timothy found out there was a funeral at Jakpumba; the village we were planning on visiting today. Usually when there is a funeral the church will have an early service because once the drumming and dancing starts no one can hear anything. We changed our plans and went to visit the church at Yawondo. I had already made plans to drop off the windows and doors for the church building at Nakpachee when we passed through the village on the way to Jakpumba. I did not want to break my promise of delivering the doors and windows so we left the mission house early enough to go to Nakpachee before we went to Yawondo. Yawondo is in a different direction from Yendi than Nakpachee is. Super, the church leader, was waiting by the road side when we got to Nakpachee. We backtracked to Yendi and then on to Timothy’s house to pick him up; we made it to our destination on time.
As soon as we got to Yawondo we went to visit the chief and greet him. The village is getting desperate for rain. The chief asked us to please pray for rain; so we did. We also asked the Lord to remember the village for rain during services.
I was asked to teach a lesson similar to the lesson I taught at the monthly class about the father’s responsibility to his children. Today’s lesson was on discipline. I taught how God wants us to discipline our children. Disciplining of children is a major problem with the congregations that we work with. The children do not sit with their parents and can be very disruptive during worship services. I also mentioned in the lesson Proverbs 13:24 which says “whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him”. I also said the children are like unbroken horses. They must be disciplined (broke to ride) before they are useful. I made sure to let them know that there is a difference between disciplining a child and abusing a child.
There were 7 men and 11 women present for the service with 40 children in attendance. We had a visitor stop by halfway through the service. He was an old man that had lost part his mind and also likes to imbibe alcohol. When the people laughed at him he continued to talk. We told them to ignore him; when he stopped getting attention he fell asleep.
In the pickup Kandie gave Timothy a bunch of patterns for making clothes that someone had given to us to pass on to him. He was like a 5 year old child on Christmas morning.
After dropping Timothy off at his house we went back to Yendi and did a little shopping. We purchased envelopes for payroll and 2 reams of copier paper. Before I leave I need to print the lessons Timothy will be teaching in the monthly classes.
After we had lunch we went back out and purchased 35 gallons of emulsion paint and grape juice for the churches. We also bought Cerelac (cereal with formula for the orphans), we left a list of drugs with Mr. Hayes, the pharmacist, and also purchased some drugs for our own personal use.
That sums up our day. Hope you had a good Lord’s Day as well.
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
