Mr. Iddrisu rode into the compound this morning as proud as a peacock on his new “used” motorcycle. We were happy to help him get the new bike because he runs a lot of errands for the Child Center especially when we are in the states. Mr. Iddrisu is in charge of paying electricity and water bill plus he pays the taxes and social security for the workers.
Today is a holiday; it is Kwame Nkrumah’s birthday. Kwame Nkrumah is one of Ghana’s founding fathers. The kids did not go to school today and the banks were not open but other than that Yendi was a bee hive of activity when we went to pick up the van this morning. While we were in town we picked up a case of communion juice and took it to Timothy’s house. Steve wanted to buy 3 or 4 cases but they only had one. We will have to have more than that for the classes at the end of next week. Our passports are supposed to be ready on Thursday. If they are we will buy some when we go to pick them up.
We got the certificates for 5 churches laminated and framed this morning. Steve will give send them to the churches when the men come in for class. We laminated and framed them to keep the mice from nibbling on them.
On our way back from Timothy’s house we stopped and picked up the podiums. We only needed one but Steve had an extra one made in case one of the smaller congregations decides to build a building.
After lunch we started installing the new air conditioning unit in the spare bedroom of the main house. It died completely earlier this year when my brother Paul was visiting. Paul got us out of bed about 11:00 to let us know it died. We quickly moved him to the apartment, changed the sheets and got him set up in a new room. He said we could wait until morning to move him but there is no need to sleep “hot” when an air conditioned room is available. I said all that to say that Steve got it partially installed this afternoon. We are replacing an old window unit with a split unit. My dad made a whole in the wall for the window unit. We will have a job for the mason when we get finished installing the unit. Steve got the inside part put in this afternoon.
Nazo came to the house just before noon; he said he had finished uprooting the peanuts and now it was the women’s turn to work. The women are supposed to go and pick up the peanuts. Excuse me, why in the world could he not have put them in a basket or wheel barrow or something when he was up rooting them. How difficult would it have been for him to throw them into a wheel barrow instead of throwing them on the ground? God knew I would never make it as a Ghanaian woman!!!
Thank you for all you do for us and the work. Keep praying for us!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
