The Church at Nanjuni invited us to visit them today. The quickest way to Nanjuni is to use the Gnani Road but it is so bad I opted to take another road less rough to get to our destination. It is pretty bad when you can take a longer route and still get to the place faster compared to the shorter route. The zanna mat building is located in the middle of bush. We dropped off Timothy at the church building then drove to Brother Simon’s house to pick up some of the church members. Then we backtracked to the building.
Brother Timothy taught the bible class. I preached a lesson on prayer. Every once in a while it is in order to teach some of the fundamentals of the gospel and I thought this particular congregation could benefit from this lesson. There were one hundred thirty-nine people present for the service; seventy-nine were children. We were presented with some guinea fowl eggs as a gift before we left for Brother Simon’s house. Simon is one of the church leaders. The chief of the village has moved out to the main road near Simon’s house. After dropping off the church members we walked over and greeted the chief.
We backtracked to the church building to pick up Timothy. One of the church brothers asked to travel back to Yendi because it is Yendi Market Day. As soon as he got sat down in the truck three women rushed over and handed the young man some money and gave instructions as to what they wanted him to purchase and bring back with him.
It didn’t take but 20 minutes to get back to Yendi and dropped off our rider. We had been back to the house about 90 minutes when Timothy called. Brother Joseph Kumasi had a stroke early last month and had been staying across the road from us since his discharge from the hospital. Today they had decided to go home. Instead of us paying for a motor king we suggested we would take Joseph and his two older children back to Nalongni. We knew it would be more comfortable for Joseph to ride in the pickup rather than riding in the back of a motor king. Joseph is improving but he still doesn’t have use of his right hand but he can walk with assistance. We had almost gotten to the river at Kulkpeni when we saw a vehicle on the side of the road. One man was pouring water into the overheated radiator/engine while three other men were inside the SUV. I stopped and gave the man our 10 liter container of water. He used it and everyone was pleased with our help. As we were leaving we decided since we were near the river we would fill the water can again and just leave it with the men. There was some cool water left in the truck from our travel to Nanjuni so Kandie gave the men the water. They were happy for the water! After we drove away Kandie told me in reference to the overheated engine and being stranded out in the bush that she” had been there, got the t-shirt, and it didn’t fit”.
In the village of Nalongni we meandered through some of the village compounds until we came to Joseph’s house. He was happy to be able to set under his own mango tree with family and friends.
On the way back to town we brought three men with us. Two men were nurses and the other man was Moses from Nalongni. Kandie was able to get the men to tell her a story for a ride back to town. She was glad to get 3 stories in one day!
Around 6pm a storm blew up and the electricity went off. We are glad to have a generator! Hope you have a pleasant Lord’s Day and may God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
