By the time you get to read this you will have forgotten if the extra hour of sleep helped or not. The time change takes some time for us to get used to because now we are 6 hours ahead of Alabama time instead of 5 hours. Ghana does not use daylight savings time. We set very close to the equator so our days and nights don’t vary much.
While we were preparing to leave to worship at Niliyuundo this morning I noticed the electrical sensor flashing “red” for our prepaid electricity meter that is located here in the house. Somehow I had not noticed the meter was running out of electricity units and there were only 5 left on the meter. I went out and switched over to the diesel generator. Our friend Red came by to bring us a small project he had made for us and he told me of a place in town where I could buy units. After he left I went to the business but they were not open. After we came back from Niliyuundo I was able to purchase the units at the VRA electrical office on the south end of town.
The village of Niliyuundo is south of Yendi about 15-20 miles. I would tell you the exact distance but the odometer on the green pickup has been broken for years. Ha! We have to drive on a bush road for another 5 miles which is in pretty bad shape after this rainy season. Anyway we arrived on time and were warmly greeted by the brethren. Brother Isaiah , the church leader that attends the monthly class , asked me to preach about women’s responsibilities in the church and about marriage. I was glad to hear the request to preach about marriage. There was a very good question and answer period after services.
The congregation has some cement blocks already made and they requested help to make more blocks so they can build a bigger building for worship on a new site and use the old building for children’s classes. We gave them money for 20 bags of cement to help finish the blocks needed . I told them that after finishing the block making we would talk about future help. We thank our contributors for the money that we can use to help these congregations.
We walked over to the chief’s house to greet him. He had gone somewhere so we left our kola and went back to the pickup. The church gave us some yams and a fine white rooster. You know we thanked them for the gifts with no small fanfare. Before we left I encouraged the people to come to the seminar later this month and they said they were planning for it.
When our night watchman, Kwabena, was traveling out to Kulkpeni this even with us for bible study he told us his daughter was admitted to the hospital for malaria. She is pregnant and they are giving her IV’s . We helped him with some money to cover some of the hospital costs.
Hope you had a good day. May God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
