Sunday February 11th

Another Sunday in Liberia, almost 8:00 pm as I type this, and I am still about one hour from home. Emmanuel is driving home from a wedding in Kakata that Wintee and two other ladies from the church decorated. I just assumed that we were picking them up and going back home. Oh, how I should learn to expect differently in Liberia. When Emmanuel and I showed up the wedding reception was in full swing. Here I am, an American wedding crasher. Emmanuel and I joined the reception (outside) just sitting to wait for the ladies work to be done. As we sat there waiting Emmanuel and I got a good laugh as well. One of the wedding presents was a live goat. A man comes to the place where the gifts and decorations were in front of the wedding table. One of the decorations was a basket with palm nuts and plantains set at each end of an archway. Anyway, the man who was giving the goat seemed to have a lot to say to people around him so he wasn’t paying attention to the goat. Well this goat may have known he didn’t have too long to live so he just decided he would eat what he could. Yes, he started to eat the plantains out of the basket. There were children around trying to tell him, but he was busy talking and not listening. I hear laughing as Emmanuel is watching this happen. We both broke out in laughter as this goat was intent on eating and the man was intent on talking. They finally did pull the goat away from the decorations, but we really enjoyed that.

I jumped ahead on my day so I’ll go back to the beginning. I woke up with….wait, I need to start this when I went to bed last night. I fell asleep around 10:00 pm or so and I woke up at 11:30 for some reason. I checked my phone since I left Titus a message and I wanted to se if he responded. Well, he did and he informed me he was still planning on me speaking at his church. Pastor Dave had also sent me a message so I informed him that I now had two churches to speak at (this was at 11:30 pm, but it is Liberia so things can change fast). I just told him things would work out one way or another. In the morning we did speak with Titus and he assured me I was to speak at his church and Emmanuel informed the other church that I would not be going there. Titus informed me that he told me he was going to Nimba, but I will blame it on the accent. I can’t say I didn’t listen closely.

Anyway, I got to Titus’s church and had a great day of worship. It was great to reconnect with them. We left around 1:00 to head back to a pickup point where Emmanuel would pick me up. Titus and I took a taxi and I was lucky to get the front seat as at one point Titus was in the back with 4 other people. I made it back to Emmanuel’s to have lunch and then we left for Kakata to pick Wintee and her friends up.

After waiting at the wedding for awhile Emmanuel decided to show me the LCMI church in Kakata rather than wait and watch the goat. We saw the church, and a school that they started to build on faith. The state run school is far from the church and it is difficult for the kids to walk that far so they are starting a school right next to the church. The church started in 2014 +\- . It’s amazing to see the need and how God meets the needs through faithful service. Pray for them as they move forward with this extension of LCMI.

After leaving there we picked up the ladies and now we are almost back to the house. I will really enjoy resting tonight.

Tomorrow will be at ELWA beach for a youth outing where I will be speaking. Pray for God to use my lesson to reach the young people that come.

No pictures tonight since the upload is going slow.

Good night all.

I am loading the pictures this morning. Things upload with less cell use.