It has been a long day! We left the compound at 7:30 this morning; our destination was Nyangpala. I had a metal table along with a bicycle to take to the village with us. I hate carrying bikes because they are so hard to tie down and keep them from banging around from the terrible roads and the road today was baddddd! We did make it without any problem so we thank the Lord for the help. It takes 2 hours to get to the village and the roads were dusty today. The village is about 15-20 km from the border of Togo. Brother Emmanuel from the congregation at Salunkuga (approximately 20 miles from Nyangpala) asked to accompany us today; we picked him up on the way.
Right after we arrived and greeted some of the people I started to clean the dust off the table we had brought because it was covered with dust. Unbeknown to me the prepared Lord’s Supper had been quickly placed on the underneath shelf of the table. I tipped the table up to clean it and off went the tray spilling onto the ground. I apologized but I still felt bad.
This congregation is made up of mostly women with only 2 or 3 men. Brother Emmanuel led the singing. Brother Elijah, a church leader, headed the communion. I was asked to speak about how the church can learn to love each other.
This visit was planned with the purpose of seeing the new building the congregation had put up. The members would like for us to help them more with windows and doors but we are encouraging them to match some of the funds we have already given to their cause.
After services we were invited to Elijah’s compound for lunch. They gave us rice with a very nice tomato and oil stew. We were also provided with a large number of yams and a dozen guinea eggs. That is a big gift around these parts. Timothy expressed our gratitude for the gifts.
Back in Yendi Kandie set down with Timothy for 30 minutes to try to show him how to keep books for his little shop he has at his house. Most Ghanaians here find it hard to keep a business afloat because they physically are eating up their profits by taking items from their store without paying for it. We purchased an account book at the bookstore on the way back to Yendi to show Timothy how to set up the book in categories so he will know where his money is going.
Dauda, the mason, finished the block laying this afternoon on the building project. Maybe this next week we can plan to get Abochi, the roofer, to come.
Tonight at Kulkpeni the children learned Genesis 1:1. Most of these children are 4-5 years old. They love coming especially when they get a sucker for trying hard.
That’s it for today. Hope you had a good day and may God bless!
In his service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
