Plans were a little bit scrambled this morning. We were scheduled to visit the congregation at Sobatido but due to the heavy rain last night we were not able to go. Timothy tried to phone one brother from the church at Borido but he couldn’t reach him. We decided to go on to Borido in hopes we wouldn’t be interrupting their schedule. Brother Divine traveled with us this morning since he is still in Yendi for his workshop. Jack decided he wanted to ride the motorcycle out to the village instead of riding in the pickup.
We met a church leader at the building who had come a little early. We asked if him if we would be intruding and he said we would not be intruding. He did say some of the church members had traveled to do work at some distant place so their numbers would be down. These workers follow the harvesting of crops in distant places so they can make money to bring home for the family. There was plenty of time to go visit the chief but when we got to his house we found out he was not around. We left the kola with one of the church members to give to him. We met Brother Foster at the chief’s house. He is a church leader that comes to the monthly classes. He was having stomach problems but he found the strength to come out this morning.
When I noticed there were a greater number of children than adults in attendance I taught a lesson with Timothy interpreting from Numbers 20 about how God made water come from a rock for the children of Israel, God’s displeasure with Moses and Aaron when they brought the water and how they were not allowed to enter the Promised Land.
After services we took a photo of the church members who were present today. The members also thanked us for giving them a new bench, bible, communion juice, cups, pad and pen, and bread.
The sky was looking a little threatening so Jack decided he would go back to Yendi while we drove down the road several miles to the village of Kpanjamba to look for some cracked clay pots for Timothy to use as houses for this rabbits that he raises.
We met a great number of the church members in the village as they had already closed their service for the day. One brother went around asking if the women had any old pots they wanted to sell to us. This village makes clay pots to sell to the public. We ended up getting nine cracked pots that Timothy could use. One lady was carrying a cracked pot to the truck when it broke into pieces. She gave her money back to us but Kandie gave her back some money just because.
The village just got lights so we thought it would be nice to give the congregation a monetary gift to help them wire the building. They were very happy!
This afternoon Jack carried the pots out to Timothy’s house using the motor king. It wasn’t hard to get him to do it since it dealt with using a motorcycle. It was great to have his help.
It is time to close so we will wish you all a good Lord’s Day and may God bless!
In His service,
Stephen & Kandie, Jack
