Sunday service at LCMI

Today was our first opportunity to be with the full congregation at LCMI. Our day started out with a light breakfast of bread and hotdogs with coffee and ‘tea’.

We then headed over to the church for Sunday School where Solomon Browne was teaching. It was good to be there for his lesson. This started at 10:00 a.m. and was followed right after by the morning worship service. It is always interesting to worship in Liberia. Through the songs and offering that is always an experience to a special ‘rally’ which was a way to collect money for the building project. The Women of Purpose baked a few cakes that they were selling to raise money. It was led by Becky, the lady who lost her husband in December. She did a hood job during this. Jenny and I don’t have the accent down yet so we were both a little lost on what they were saying. Overall the congregation enjoyed the rally and at the end of the service much cake was shared.

I was blessed to speak today. What a privilege to offer the message to another culture in another country. The service ended shortly after 1:00 p.m.

It was quite hot just after, but we greeted many old friends and met some new ones. After a time Jenny and I headed home to have our lunch. Wintee had a meeting right after and Emmanuel left just before I preached as he was meeting up with a Pastor, Bask Johnson, who was visiting a few local places and Emmanuel planned to take him around.

After lunch Jenny and I decided to sit outside (in the shade) for a little while and we were surprised when Pastor Titus Namen, one of CBC’s missionaries, drove up on his motorcycle. It was so good to see him again. We were able to sit and visit for over an hour together. Emmanuel came back and he wasn’t kidding when he said we’d be busy today. We needed to go to visit some of the small group studies called cell groups that the church has going on for Sunday. We said our goodbyes to Titus with a promise to get together again soon with he and Mercy, his wife, as well as their children. We haven’t worked out the details, but we will.

Anyway, we got in the car with Emmanuel and Pastor Johnson and headed out. After quite a few ‘dusty roads’ we showed up at a nice home with an anniversary party underway. This couple normally has the cell group at their home, but they wanted to have a party with their friends for their anniversary. We arrived and they brought out a plate of food for each of us. It was good food and there were a bunch of kids around. I had a lot of fun playing with them. We left there to go to a wedding planning meeting with our driver from the day before, Abraham. For those that were here before, Abraham’s best man is Shaddrach. It was good to see him. We stayed for only a few minutes and we hit the road again. I was dropped off at a cell group of young men. It was good to study with them for awhile. When we were finished I realized that we were close to home so we just walked home. The boys decided to play UNO so I joined in. Jenny came back as we were playing. We must have played over 10 games and I didn’t win even one. I don’t think I like that game. It was a lot of fun.

Now we are sitting here, generator on, with fans blowing on us and Jenny preparing her lesson for the children tomorrow afternoon. Pray that she feels confident as she leads. She has a great helper, Herietta, planning to help her. It should be a good day.

Hopefully tomorrow we’ll get our infinity card and we can send pictures. Until then, goodbye.