Category Yendi Notes

We got rain!  We have not had any in almost 2 weeks which is unusual for us at this time of the year.  This is our rainy season and it should be raining at least every other day.  Traditionally September… Continue Reading →

The plastering job on the church building at Kulkpeni is done and it looks very nice.  They finished around 3:30.  Steve has made several trips out to Kulkpeni today.  At 1:30 Dauda, the mason called Steve and asked him to bring him… Continue Reading →

Steve, Nazo (the day man) and his son Yahya spent the whole morning and part of the afternoon hauling sand from the mission house out to Kulkpeni.  In all they made 6 trips.  They are exhausted!  Dauda the mason is… Continue Reading →

Steve spent a large portion of the afternoon updating the charts for the malnourished, low weight children.  There is a graph on the charts with a line to indicate whether the child is gaining or losing weight.  Mr. Iddrisu and… Continue Reading →

Kandie wanted to get some laundry done before we left for worship so we scurried around until it was time for us to go. Then Mr. Iddrisu came by needing an advance so he could hire a tractor to bring… Continue Reading →

Divine, the teacher/farmer/part time evangelist sent someone that was coming to Yendi with a copy of his report on his trip to Wa.  He made the trip to meet with some of the churches in that area that were interested… Continue Reading →

It was very quiet at the compound today; especially after the hordes of mothers and babies we have had for the past 4 days.  The Child Center is only open 4 days a week.   Zorash stopped by several times today. … Continue Reading →

This morning 149 babies and children came to the Child Center.  We knew that we would have a bunch of children again today and we knew that we did not have enough baby clothes and stuffed bears to accommodate all… Continue Reading →

Well, we broke our record this morning; 192 babies came to the Child Center.   At one point Steve said that it was like a bunch of chickens in a hen house!  None of the children were sick; their mothers brought… Continue Reading →

Oh! My, this morning the mothers descended upon the Child Center like a herd of locust.  I believe we broke our record this morning.  We saw 144 children in a 3 ½ hours.  There is no way to describe the… Continue Reading →