We visited the congregation at Jomani today. The village is about 25 miles east of Yendi. We had good roads to travel to this location which several years ago would have taken 1.5 hours to reach; today it was 45 minutes. It was a dark gloomy morning which hinted it might pour down rain at any moment. Yendi received rain in the night but it was only drizzling when we left the compound. Timothy mentioned to me this morning when I called him that he had catarrh (cold symptoms) and a slight headache which prompted me to think that all three of us needed to wear masks in the pickup going to and from the village; neither of us wanted a cold or the possibility of catching Covid.
We arrived earlier than expected due to the good roads so we walked over to the chief’s house and left our kola for him. He had gone to the farm to check on something. The order of service this morning had me teach the bible class and Timothy, one of Jomani’s church leaders, was to preach. For the class I discussed some things that Christians should not be doing to be pleasing to God. The class went very well. When it was time for me to close the class, the church leader, Timothy, asked me to continue with the class and he wanted to give me his preaching time to talk about things Christians should be doing to please God. It was a great class!
After services the brethren wanted to have their photos taken with us; especially the men. They were also pleased that we had brought the congregation our usual gifts of juice, cups, bread, tablets, bible, and a bench. We were presented with 14 new yams and a guinea fowl; such a nice gift.
We also presented the men with some money for them to use to help build a new cement block building. We had helped financially the last time we visited and they had used the money wisely. Thanks go out to all who provide money for us to help these congregations.
We had a pickup bed of women (11 women and 1 baby)that requested to travel to a village on the way back to Yendi to attend a funeral. As we were leaving the village with the women we could see that a heavy rain was coming. Fortunately, the rain didn’t last long so everybody got wet.
After class at Kulkpeni tonight we were going to pick up the Church’s sign board that had been removed by the road crew. We couldn’t pick it up because the legs had a lot of cement attached to them so I will have to go back out this week and try to knock off the cement . If that doesn’t work I will cut off the legs and have new ones welded on.
That wraps up another Sunday for us. Thanks for your prayers and support.
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
