Today we visited the congregation at Nakpa in the Nanumba North District. Nakpa is one of the larger congregations that we work with. The attendance today that included adults and children was 162. We gave the church our regular gifts and we also included some money to help with their building project because they are doing a lot of the work themselves.
The brethren decided to forgo the bible class this morning and allow the class and sermon to be combined. The church leader from Nakpa who attended the May class requested that I teach about family planning after services. My sermon topic was “the relationship of Christ to the Church and the husband’s relationship to his wife”. The apostle Paul dealt with this same subject to the church at Ephesus in Ephesians 5:22-33. This biblical study complimented the question and answer period after services and helped to cut down on the time needed for the biblical background for the relationship between the husband and wife as God would have it. This congregation has encountered some problems with husbands and wives and their physical relationships; thus the reason for the subject matter. Each time I teach this subject I continue to be amazed how God has made us and how marriage is the representation of Christ’s relationship to His bride, the Church!
We had a great time with the congregation. Timothy and I were asked to lead a baby naming ceremony for a couple who are members of the congregation. The baby is a little girl. Her mama had her dressed in a little white dress with an elastic white ribbon on her head. She was a cutie! Her English name is Esther and her Konkomba name which I can’t pronounce without butchering it means “God’s working”. The father said this baby was unexpected but God was working His will so they welcomed the child as a gift from God.
Before we left for Yendi the congregation presented us with a large number of yams and a guinea fowl. We told them how much we appreciated their generosity. Later on we regifted both items to Timothy for his family. It is as the scripture says “You don’t muzzle the ox that treads out the grain!
This afternoon was spent preparing paperwork and the property for our departure Tuesday morning for Accra.
Tonight at Kulkpeni I lead the class. When it was over I asked the people to remember us in their prayers as we leave for home. I figure tonight might be a late one so I will close. May God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
