Kandie, Timothy, and I were invited to a congregation that we haven’t visited before. The name of the village is Jamoni. It is east of Yendi in the Zabzugu District. John, the church leader who has been attending the monthly class invited us to come. The road is so bad it took us nearly 2 hours to get to the place. We picked up Brother Emmanuel Jagri, who is one of the leaders at Salinkuga, a few miles before we turned into the bush to go to the village. Timothy asked Emmanuel to go with us to show us the way.
The church building looked new. We were told a storm destroyed the old one earlier this year. The Church has approximately 20 adults and there were 55+ children. Since we didn’t know what the church needed we took a bench, cups, bread, juice, pad & pen, account book, Konkomba Bible, and a communion tray. The members were quite pleased with their gifts.
The communion tray was one of the 40 stackable metal trays we contracted Red to make. The plastic boards we brought from the states some years ago did not hold up very well. The new trays are made of sheet metal and hold 36 cups. They will hold up much longer.
Timothy taught the bible class and I preached my lesson about the “Unchanging God”. After services we had a very good question and answer period. Several of the questions dealt with the subject of marriage. After that we asked if the Church would like to have their photo taken and we would bring them back an 8×10 when we return after the first of the year. Of course the answer was “Yes”. It didn’t take long to get everyone situated outside so everyone’s face could be seen in the picture.
Before leaving the village we explained to the Church that we try to always greet the chief; we needed some men to introduce us to the chief. It wasn’t far. The chief was away from the village but the second man in charge met with us. He was surprised that we gave him kola for the chief and for him. While under the tree with the chief elder the church members brought us 14 tubers of yam and a rooster as a gift. The generosity of these people is impressive. The smaller children helped me load the yams in the back of the pickup. The rooster stayed inside the pickup on the floor.
Our trip back to Yendi we dropped one of the church sisters off in the village of Saberi located on the River Oti. It was the village’s market day and the lady needed to purchase some items.
Our class dealing with marriage at Kulkpeni went well. We were supposed to start at 4pm but we didn’t get started until 4:30pm. We didn’t get far in the lesson today. We got stuck discussing their practice of newly married couples living with the husband’s father and mother. There seems to be no leaving the husband’s parents and cleaving to his wife. The class really liked the discussion. They said they were looking forward to next week’s class.
Thanks for your support. We as well as the brethren in the Church here really appreciate it. Have a good day. May God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
