Nazo told us that he wanted to change his day off this week so he could go to Tamale to the big March 6th celebration. March 6this Ghana’s Independence Day; sort of like our 4th of July. Zorash said that she was going to go to Tamale this afternoon too. This year the government decided to bring the celebration to Tamale. Yesterday when we were in Tamale we drove by the stadium and buses and people were already there. Tamale had hired lots of men and women to white wash the curbs through the town leading to the stadium. They were even putting Astroturf type carpet in the round-a-bouts to make them look like there was grass growing in them. We are in the middle of the dry season; it has not rained here since late November. They also wrapped the light poles with red, green and gold fabric; the colors of Ghana’s flag. The poor president and his cabinet are going to burn up; the high temperature yesterday was 117 degrees and today’s high temperature was 116 degrees. It is 5:37pm and the temperature is still 100 degrees. The sun is about to set.
We spent a good portion of the morning at Timothy Niligrini’s house. He has been having trouble with his industrial sewing machine. He has asked the sewing machine mechanic to look at it several times; he always promises to come to Timothy’s house but he never comes. We told Timothy that we would go and ask the mechanic to come and even pick him up and carry him to Timothy’s house (5 miles from Yendi). He agreed to work on the machine. The machine is attached to the table and difficult to move because it has a trough of oil and an oil pump. We watched the mechanic work for an hour and half. He got the machine to sew better but it still skipped stitches when sewing through several layers. At least it sews now.
While we were at Timothy’s house his brother came from town. He had been to the doctor and gotten a prescription for some medicine that he had no money to buy. Then we met Kwabena, one of the church members at Kulkpeni; his wife had been to the doctor and he only had part of the money he needed to buy her medicine. Thanks to your generous gifts we were able to help both of these people. They were so grateful to get the medicine they needed.
We also met Abruwa; a young crippled mother that lives in Kulkpeni and is a member of the church. She asked if she could have a couple of empty plastic paint buckets. We had taken some to the seminar for the cooks to use and she wanted to know if she could have 2 to store the supplies that she is selling in her little road side stand. We told her we could get her some but she would have to wash them. She did not mind washing them.
My brother Paul arrived this afternoon in Accra. Red, the part time driver picked him up.
Please keep the work in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
