It was great to have Kandie back with me today to go visit the congregation at Kpamang. Kandie’s brother Paul seems to be “on the mend” as well so he joined us. Like always, Timothy Niligrini accompanied us to Kpamang. Our visit had a dual purpose today. The first was to visit the congregation. The second was to see the area where the surveyor had laid out the stakes for the bulldozer to build the earthen dam that will serve the school and the surrounding villages.
Upon our arrival we drove the pickup to an area located behind the church building about 1000 yards. There is a nice sloping area the surveyor is capitalizing on to gain the needed run off of water to supply the dam. We hope they will dig the area deep enough to allow some silting of the bottom but still deep enough to hold some big fish. They thought they were going to dig last week but the dozer needed to be repaired. On the way back to the church building we stopped at the chief’s house and gave kola to a man representing the chief who had had left the village earlier this morning.
I had a lot of fun this morning. Paul was with us and the visiting man is usually asked to preach so I got to teach the children’s class. There were 54 kids in my class. Timothy interpreted for me. When I began class I asked what things could we be thankful for? We said food to eat, water to drink, and clothes so we could have something to wear. I’m afraid we might have some different answers if that had been asked to a kid’s class back home. We studied about King Solomon and the two women fighting over the live baby. They said they had not ever heard the story. They were good listeners considering some of the children were 3-4 years old.
After church services a set of parents who are church members asked if I would name their baby girl. As many of you already know I love this job! The name I settled on was Rachel. I could tell the mother was quite pleased with the name. The baby was rollie-pollie plump which I am always glad to see in children. Kandie took the parents photos with Baby Rachel so we will bring them back some copies the next time we come back from the states.
Before we left the village we drove to Brother Divine’s house to see his new baby pigs and pick up some extra money the village had contributed for the dam. He now has 11 piglets that his sows are raising. Pigs over here are usually the size of feral hogs and also have longer hair than our pigs back in the states. It is the favorite meat at a funeral of Konkomba tribesmen!
This afternoon Kandie and I worked getting our bedroom/office straighten around. I had to change out a light fixture over our bed. The regular 4 ft florescent bulbs are now being phased out in the country and replaced with a smaller diameter size 4 ft bulb and fixture that doesn’t require a starter to light the bulb. Paul worked with Red to get his pickup ready for use.
It will not be long before we will need to leave for evening bible study so I will close for now. We hope you had a great Lord’s Day and may God bless.
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
