Sunday, June 24, 2012

W'apow mu e, 

We had a good day at church.  There were eighty in attendance this morning.  I had thirty in my class; my helper came toward the end of Sunday School.

One of the girls in the church recently graduated from high school.  I guess some schools do not allow them to wear hair extensions; so, she has never had much hair.  Now, that she has finished school, she can wear extensions.  When she came to church today, Danny did not recognize her.  He asked her what her name was, and she told him a different name.  He said, "Well, you sound like someone else."  Then, I passed by, and he said, "Mom, who is that?"  I told him that it was Ordeth.  He said, "Oh, she has a different face."  (I have done the same thing before because they change their hair style or hair color so frequently in Africa.)

We had a meeting for the Sunday school teachers after church today.  We are going to try something different for a while.  Only the children seven and under will be dismissed to their own class; everyone else will stay in the auditorium.  Several of the teachers have only been coming on Sunday mornings, and they don't hear any preaching that way.  This will hopefully help them to grow spiritually and encourage them to attend all church services.  I will continue doing the class and rotate with a different helper each week.

Three of the five teachers were there for the evening service tonight.  We had eighteen in attendance.

After church, the kids were running around playing with some of the neighborhood children in the church yard.  When we got in the car, Gilbert said that those kids were playing rough tonight.  Joe asked who had started the rough play.  Gilbert thought about it a minute and said, "It was Danny."  Danny said, "Well, I was just playing flying monkey karate guy."  : )  Bonnie was trying to pick up the kids her size by wrapping them in a bear hug.

Pray for Joe as he will be traveling to Ivory Coast tomorrow.  He plans to return on Wednesday.

Nantsew yie!