We planned to eat breakfast here at the hotel by 7am but it wasn’t quite ready. The plan was to be finished eating and ready to leave by 8am which we were able to do. Breakfast doesn’t take long to fix when you’re making omelets and toast. Another breakfast tradition is to accompany the eggs and toast with cold Heinz bake beans and canned hot dogs. Timothy Niligrini just cannot stand to eat any baked beans so his beans were left behind.
The new congregation we visited was about 20 minutes away from our hotel going toward Accra. The name of the congregation is Accra Road. Today was their inaugural worship service. There were 108 people present. There were a lot of out of town visitors there to encourage the new Church.
Bible class began at 9am and worship service was at 10:15. We were able to see some familiar faces; Ken Gyan- Kesse and his wife and family, Joseph Gyamfi and his family, and Brother Richard Gyan-Mantee. The worship service was live streamed so some of the Ghanaians living in the U.S. could also watch.
After services there was a commemorative plaque read to the audience honoring Brother Samuel O. Obeng who died several weeks ago. Samuel was one of the first converts of the Church in Ghana and was very influential in the Church and the city of Kumasi. Samuel’s wife Comfort will be presented with a certificate stating her devotion to her husband and the Lord’s work. It is like what today’s speaker said” For every good man there is a good woman behind him helping with the work”.
The bible class, services, and announcements took about 4 hours from start to finish. Afterward everyone was treated to a nice meal. It also gave us a chance to greet the members and visitors. While the women were passing out the food the four of us walked over to Comfort Obeng’s house to offer our sympathy to her and the family. We also left some more money with them to help with the financial strain of Samuel’s death. It wasn’t long before we walked back to the church building to get our food and meet up with Brother Joseph Gyamfi and his family. Joseph told me last week that he had some clothing that some brethren from the states had sent to be distributed to the needy brethren in the north. I told him we would try to take them back with us. Brother’s Gyamfi’s house is north and out of town. I thought Yendi had some bad roads but these “streets” were more than awful. I wished I was in the 4×4 pickup! When we arrive at his house it was 3:30. He truly did have a lot of clothes. It filled the whole top rack on the van and we have four half bags inside the van. Brother Divine and Timothy helped us to get it all tied down for the trip back to Yendi.
This afternoon Mr. Iddrisu called Divine and told him that while he was at Red’s father’s funeral someone stole his motorcycle. He and Nazo had tried to locate it but to no avail. We will have to get the full story when we get back to Yendi.
By the time Brother Gyamfi lead us back onto the main road it was getting close to 5 pm. After leaving at 8 am we had not been back to the hotel but services were at 6 so we decided to go fill up the van with diesel and then go back to the church building for evening worship.
Evening services were abbreviated since this morning had gone so long. I know we appreciated it. We told everyone good bye and left for the hotel. Timothy and Divine enjoyed the fried chicken and fried rice here at the hotel last night. They were happy to hear they were going to get to eat it again tonight.
That brings today happenings to a close. We hope you had a good Lord’s Day as we did. May God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
Email taylorsinghana@gmail.com
Website www.ghanamissionfund.org
