21st October 2016
Yendi Notes
Today’s Yendi notes are provided by Rusty Johnson and cover Thursday and Friday.
We took a little time off before all the chaos of the upcoming seminar. We headed out bright and early on Thursday morning for Mole. Mole is Ghana’s large game preserve. I was pleasantly surprised how quickly we got there now that the road is completely paved to Mole. There were several other changes, like electricity 24/7 and air conditioning in the rooms. We arrived in time for lunch and then took the afternoon safari. In times past you hired a guide and he took you on a walk to see the wildlife. Now they have these four wheeled drive vehicles and that they have attached seats to the top. It’s actually pretty cool, and you can go deeper into the park.
Because this is the end of the wet season the animals don’t have to come up to the big watering hole near the lodge. We did manage to find two elephants on the ride deeper in the park. One was massive and we had to get off the jeep and walk down to where he was. It’s pretty impressive to see God’s handiwork up close. We also saw wart hogs, antelopes, lizards (one very large) and a wide assortment of birds.
We had supper at the lodge and then we all turned in for a much needed nights rest. This morning (Friday) we left Mole and headed to Tamale where we met one of the evangelist named Divine. Divine goes to Tamale every other weekend and is studying to become a school teacher. Divine was instrumental in getting a school to his village and now is preparing himself to be a teacher. He is very dedicated.
As we made it to Yendi it started raining pretty hard, and figured the evening Bible study would be cancelled due to the rain. They don’t get out if it is raining. Fortunately the rain stopped pretty quickly and Timothy said the class was still on. We jumped in the pickup and headed out. There are only four seats in the pick-up so Jack and I ride on a bench in the back. Although there is a bug problem at night, it’s a pretty amazing ride.
When we got to the village we greeted the chief, and then proceeded to start the Bible which was right outside the chief’s door. The entire village showed up. Kandie counted 279 people. Perry had a great lesson straight from the Bible. Afterwards we were pretty much swamped by all the people of the village wanting to shake our hands. I told Perry he was a
rock star now.
I’m not sure what the schedule is tomorrow, but I think I heard Kandie say something about shopping for the seminar. Last year they had 433 attend. A couple of the evangelists said there would be more this year. It takes a lot of supplies to feed that many people for 2 days.
In Christian Love,
Steve, Kandie, Jack, Rusty & Perry.
