We had a good visit with the congregation at Bungbali today; we being Kandie, Timothy Niligrini, and yours truly. It was extra special because we also had the visiting congregation from Tumbu attending the worship service.
Bungbali and Tumbu are located about 25 minutes west of the town of Saboba which is north east of Yendi close to the Ghana-Togo border. The roads to the villages were much better today than in previous years. What used to take two hours to make the trip was reduced by 45 minutes today. Since we were much earlier than we expected to be we were able to sit down and have a short meeting with several of the church leaders before services. Bungbali is the village where John Nchola, one of the evangelists that work with us lives.
A brother by the name of Simon led the bible class. Timothy interpreted my lesson concerning the Lord’s Supper and how the Church celebrates Christ’s death every Sunday instead of a few special days out of the year. There were a total of 71 people present for the service this morning.
Brother Edward is one of the church leaders at Bungbali. He has a 2-3 year old son that was showing out during service. Children are allowed to run free during services sometimes and today was this little boy’s turn. The problem increased when he would do or say something funny and people would snicker which made the little guy do it even more. Kids have a way of getting people’s attention.
We were happy to find out that young two men and one young woman requested baptism at the end of the service. We drove the pickup cross country to get to the river area that held enough water to do the baptisms in. Please keep these new Christians in your prayers!
John Nchola invited us to his house for lunch. His wife had prepared some TZ with a pork stew for us to eat. John’s wife is a good cook so we enjoy eating her food. The Church also gave us a large number of guinea eggs and some yams which we later shared with Timothy.
As we were passing out of the village Kandie noticed calabash gourds under a tree in someone’s yard so we stopped to get some seeds. Calabash gourds do not grow on vines; they grown on a tree. We were told you have to have tree cuttings instead of seeds. One brother jumped out of the pickup and asked permission for some cuttings. The guy hacked off a good size limb which we were able to cut into 5-6 cuttings. We will see if we have success starting the trees and if so we have enough to share with Timothy, Nazo, and Mr. Iddrisu.
After arriving back to the compound Timothy went home and we waited an hour for the sun to get lower in the sky before going to the market because today was Yendi Market day. We still do not have our asphalt weatherproofing paint. It was supposed to be here today but hopefully we can get it early tomorrow morning.
That is it for today. We hope you enjoyed the holiday with your family and friends. Hunting Easter eggs was a lot of fun for me as a kid; especially when you found a chocolate egg!
Have a good Lord’s Day and may God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
Email taylorsinghana@gmail.com
Website www.ghanamissionfund.org
