Have you ever had one of those days when you try to plan and have anything in place but it still doesn’t prepare you for the unexpected? Well, today was one of those days.
Timothy, Kandie , and I traveled back to the Manumba District to the village of Kakpande. We were only a few miles the way the crow flys from the village of Mpeasum where we visited two weeks ago. It takes more than two hours to get there. Today we were able to drive right through all the water that had hindered us on the way two weeks ago. The congregation at Nakpa is on the road leading to Kakpande. We stopped there to greet the brethren and drop off the clothes that we had given out at last month’s class. Jacob, the brother from Nakpa forgot to pick up their clothes.
The congregation at Kakpande was assembled outside under a nice shade tree that is located beside the church building. Boy, was I glad too! The sun has started to get hot with the starting of the dry season. Before services started several of the men asked if I would teach about “attendance”. The congregation is meeting for morning devotional during the week and they want to encourage the members to attend. Of course, I was glad to do it. .
Now is when the unexpected occurred. Very soon after Timothy and I had finished the lesson a man came over to ask if we could take his wife who was at their house to the clinic some 10-12 miles back toward Yendi because she was having a difficult birth. We quickly told Timothy that we would take her. After services we didn’t have time for any questions and answers. My main objective was to get this mother to the clinic . The village people find it difficult to understand the need to move quickly in these types of situations. They had to give us some yams as a gift, give us some cooked food, and get some yams loaded in the pickup for Brother Samuel Mboom who accompanied us to Yendi. We finally got a man to run ahead of us as we drove through the village to show us where the woman was located to pick her up. I kept asking the Lord to protect our tires so I didn’t get a flat which would slow us down getting to the clinic. We were at the house for ten minutes trying to figure out how to transfer the woman to the bed of the pickup. Guess what? During this time a little baby boy decided to meet the outside world so we didn’t have to race to the clinic for the delivery. Oh, the father was happy to have a little boy. His first child was a little girl. We gave the family 10 Cedis for a baby gift. All of our rushing around amounted to nothing. We thank God both were safe and sound.
We got back to the house about 2:45pm. Kulkpeni had a naming ceremony scheduled for 3pm but Timothy told us not to come before 4pm. Iddrisu and Nazo told us the motor king had failed them back in the field and they had to push it back to the house. Later on I had an idea and went out to see if I was right. I was right. They had accidently hit the red kill switch for the engine. I got it running and Iddrisu came over quickly to see what I had done. You see the same thing happened to me one day so I learned from my mistakes.
We ate a quick lunch and drove out to Kulkpeni around 4pm. I was 4:30 before we started the naming ceremony. The family had already decided on a Konkomba name but asked us to give a biblical name. I gave the little baby girl the name of Hannah . A naming ceremony is equivalent to a baby shower.
That is it for today. We hope you having a good Lord’s Day and may He bless you and yours.
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
Email taylorsinghana@gmail.com
Website www.ghanamissionfund.org
