Of all the years that Kandie and I have lived here in Yendi this month’s weather seemed to be the most trying physically. There were many days when the temperature was 115 degrees or above with heat indexes that ranged from 120 degrees up to 136 degrees. We use the cooler parts of the morning and late afternoon to do the things we need to do outside. We are very grateful to have air-conditioning in our bedroom.
The week following Kandie and her brother Paul’s arrival to Ghana we were invited to Kulkpanga to a naming ceremony for one of the church member’s new baby boy. Kulkpanga is a very small congregation. There are only four adults and six children in the congregation. This was a great opportunity to teach the Bible to a predominately Muslim village because many visitors came to help celebrate the new arrival. We were warmly welcomed by the village. I have to admit it was a little strange preaching to the audience from the Bible when I knew most of them are accustomed to only hearing the Quran.
On the Sundays in March we visited to the villages of: Nalongni on March 5th, Jakpumba on 12th, Mulpido on the 19th, and Nyangbaln on the 26th. On our visit to Nalongni Kandie’s brother Paul taught the Bible class and his friend Enoch from down south preached the sermon. At Jakpumba I gave a lesson on church organization. The next week at Mulpido, where Daniel Batoln is an evangelist, I was requested to teach a lesson on how to have a worship service that is pleasing to God. The weather was very hot that day! Kandie will always remember that visit because the wind was blowing so hard that it kept blowing grit into her mouth and her chair collapsed and she fell on the ground. We were thankful to be meeting outside under a small tree instead in inside the hot church building. Nyangbaln is another small congregation that only has a handful of members but they are blessed with lots of children.
We changed things up for class this month. We invited two preachers from southern Ghana to deliver lessons concerning Church organization and Church autonomy. Brother Joseph Adu Gyamfi and Brother Richard Gyan-Mante accepted the invitation to come teach class. They did a great job of encouraging the brothers! Bro. Gyamfi had been to Yendi once some years ago but Bro. Gyan-Mante had never been to the north. It just so happened that the high temperature for the class day was 120 degrees. Our visiting speakers were troupers; they preached through their sweat! There were 45 men present for the class. We invited the church leaders to bring other men with them so more people could hear the guest speakers.
We thank all of you that give us money for the evangelistic work. Through your efforts we were able to pay for the food, transport of the church leaders and extra men, transportation plus a monetary gift for the guest speakers. Both men said they would like to come back and continue to be involved with the work.
The monthly report from the church leaders and evangelist are as follows: nine people were baptized into Christ and eleven souls were restored to the Lord’s Church. There were a total of nineteen visits made to villages and congregations this month.
We continue to request your prayers of encouragement for the work we are endeavoring to do for the Lord. Satan is trying his best to tear down the Church in Ghana but with the help of the Lord and your prayers this battle can be won.
We would again like to remind you of the new website that was built and maintained by our son Aaron and daughter-in-law Melissa. You can subscribe to the daily Yendi Notes by going to the bottom right hand corner of the main webpage. We plan to add more photos and videos to the website when we get home at the end of May. The website address is www.ghanamissionfund.org and you can still email us at taylorsinghana@gmail.com
Thanks again for your support. We really appreciate it!! May God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
