I had just been awake a few minutes this morning when I got a telephone call from Timothy Niligrini asking if we could leave an hour earlier than we planned for our visit to the village of Kulkpanga. I had everything ready anyway so I told Timothy that was fine with me. I would see him around 8 am.
Timothy arrived a little after 8am so after telling Mr. Iddrisu where we were going we headed for the village. Kulkpanga is on the way to Kpamang which is north east of the compound. It is a fairly good dirt road to travel with the exception of two culverts. One needs a load of gravel on south side where the road has been partially washed away while the other has a pile of gravel dumped on the top right hand side for the purpose of trying to cover a whole the size of a garbage can lid. The pile of gravel has a hole in it because the gravel has fallen through the hole. At least the pile of gravel is high enough you want to make sure you dodge the pile thus missing the hole in the culvert with your vehicle.
This village we visited is a small fledgling congregation of a hand full of people. The church was started back in early October of last year. One of the brethren had asked us to come today and help plan a naming ceremony for his new baby boy. Before worship began we made plans for the celebration. Naming ceremonies are similar to baby showers back home. During worship I taught a lesson about the acts of worship making sure to reference everything with scriptures so the new brethren can use them to study on their own. I have not purchased any benches since I have been back but I promised to buy and send one to their congregation so it can be carried back and forth for worship. By the way we worshipped under a nice shade tree this morning. The breeze actually made it fairly comfortable.
As we were about to leave the village three ladies with head pans full of grain to grind at the mill begged a ride from us. These women usually make the 6-7 mile walk to the grinding mill with a heavy load once or twice a week. They thanked us when they got down from the pickup at the village of Gundogu that is a mile from the compound. At this same village some guys were burning grasses near a house and as we passed it Timothy said he thought he saw smoke on the thatch roof. I reversed the truck and we checked it out. Sure enough!
Smoke was coming from the thatch. We got one guy’s attention and showed him the smoke that had now turned to fire! The guy tried to knock it out but a few seconds later the other side of the roof was a blaze. The whole roof was lost due to carelessness.
After returning to the compound Timothy left for his house I ate my lunch. It was long after eating that I went up to the market to find two flats of eggs. My usual market lady was still out but she showed me a new place in the market to buy so I had success. I left there to buy some bottled water to freeze for my trip down south later this week.
I worked on the charts for the child center again this afternoon. I would have gotten done sooner but Brother Divine and Brother Joseph from Kpamang came by to pick up some money that we have been keeping for their village to help build a dam. I finally finished the charting at 7:30pm and then left for Kulkpeni for evening service.
That was my day. I hope you had a great Lord’s Day as well. Please keep us in your prayers this week.
In His service,
Stephen Taylor
