I’ll begin this month’s report by giving the information given to us at the evangelist/ church leader’s class for September. The classes are always a highlight of the month. We were happy that twenty-seven men were able to attend the class. The men reported that twenty-seven people were baptized into Christ and nine were restore to the Church during the month of September. Twenty congregations received a visit this month.
Brother Emmanuel, one of the evangelists, an older man who does not really know how old he is but we suspect he is in his 70’s, is finding it harder and harder to remember dates and times. Sometimes he misses the class. Please keep him in your prayers.
Timothy Niligrini has been challenging the brothers attending the class to memorize some scriptures that are commonly used to teach the basics of the gospel. He is doing a good job! During my lesson time this month I used a children’s book given to us by Mary and Jimmy Stroud that simply explains the Godhead (God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) by using an apple. While in Tamale earlier in the month we purchased a case of apples from a cold store that we used for the lesson. The brothers enjoyed the lesson because there is a lot of misinformation about the Godhead floating around the world and this lesson made it very plain to them. I provided a half of apple to each man as I was teaching the lesson. Each apple has a skin, flesh, and core with seeds but all three are needed to make an apple. Each has a purpose. Each is separate yet each is a part of the whole. As a side note, seventeen men said they had never eaten an apple. We also sent a whole apple with the men to so they could share the apple and the example with their family.
The class time was shorten so the men attending class could come to the compound to pick up the used clothing that Brother Joseph Gyamfi had given to us when we were in Kumasi earlier in the month. The clothing came from a congregation of the Church from Bronx, New York. Kandie and I spent 3-4 days drying the clothes that had gotten rain soaked as we brought them up to Yendi on top of the van. We sorted and divided the clothing into 40 new feed sacks to be equally distributed to the congregations that we work with. We also provided money for the lorry fare to carry the clothes back to the villages. The men signed a letter of thanks that will be sent to the congregation that sent the clothes. The men were happy to receive the clothes.
On our Sunday visiting of the congregations we traveled to Duuni on September 3rd. On September 10th
we were invited to worship with the Accra Road Church of Christ in Kumasi for their inaugural service. Kandie and I invited Timothy Niligrini and Brother Divine Gmalan to go with us. This is a congregation that was started with the help of Brother Kenneth Gyan Kesse. Brother Kesse is a native of Ghana and a graduate of Freed-Hardeman University. We felt it important to let Timothy and Divine see firsthand that as Christians we must stand for the truth even if it means separating ourselves from denominational ways. The service was live streamed on the internet to Ghanaian brethren in the U.S. and abroad. We traveled to the congregation at Bakpaba south of Yendi on Sunday the 17th. Then on the 24th of the month we visited the congregation at Nanjuni. Nanjuni is presently meeting in a thatch building. They are trying to build a permanent building. Thanks to your generosity we were able to give them some money for cement.
We were happy to finally get the two poly tanks (water tank) connected to the water system this month. The additional tank doubled the water storage capacity. We have already harvested enough rain water to fill them both. This will make a huge difference for us during the dry season when water is scarce even when it comes from the city water pipe. Having a transfer pump connected to the cistern at the house allows us to collect the rainwater and send it to the storage tank where I add dry chlorine granules.
Thanks go out to all of you who help support the work with their prayers and contributions. It most definitely takes all of us to get the work done. Continue to pray for us. May God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
Email taylorsinghana@gmail.com
Website www.ghanamissionfund.org
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