Picture = 1000 Words … July 11 - 15, 2023
Tuesday, July 11 - A quiet day at home…
Wednesday, July 12 - back out to the village with Samson…
First a favorite meal of beans, oil w/onion, and gari (ground cassava) from Mary’s kitchen… 😋
After the meal we gave Jeremy and Mary each an easy-to-read large print Ewe Bible…
Heart💞Partners & Prayer🙏Warriors, this is what your sowing produced! It was the highlight of our week… 🤗
We also gave them each a dependable phone… they were overjoyed…! Thank you Jesus! 🙌 Thank you Heart💞Partners & Prayer🙏Warriors!!
Mid-afternoon we looked at three plots of land that were for sale… this is the third one… the most likely… we’d like a hectare which is about 2.5 acres… WOW! God is full of surprises… we never thot we’d be looking for land this time around… much less considering to buy as well… of course we don’t know the outcome yet. 🤔
Thursday, July 13 - A day at home… updates… prayer…
Water line sprung a leak in the evening and there was no shut-off valve… 🤯 … kinked the hose, which broke… a bit of rubber cord kept the bent over hose tight until the plumber came the next day… I think I learned something that will be useful some future day…
Friday, July 14 - To Carrefour in the afternoon… saw this tractor on the way… we don’t see many, but Togo needs them…
Back to the Fendig restaurant… they were missing two dishes since we left… and we thot we had returned them all… I bought two new ones to give them… this young lady didn’t want to accept the gifts until I just told her don’t think about the missing dishes…this was a blessing from God for her… she was very, very thankful… 😊
Went to greet our good friend Yaovi’s wife at their home… she is cooking corn meal and sauce w/her youngest daughter Esther…
Walked by these sleeping children…
Mary asked this young mother of 5 to cook for us this afternoon… she has very limited means and Mary said the children were crying when she left home…
When she returned home that evening with money in her pocket and more than enough food to fill her family’s tummies, her children were overjoyed!
Her husband came over the next day to heartily thank Mary for the blessing to their family…
💭 Imagine… 🤔 your children going to bed crying/hungry on a regular basis… 😢 💔 … and you feel powerless to do anything about it…
Jaime loves to carry and try to catch the chickens…
Later… another chicken…
More than one meal in the making…
The cooking fire was lit at 4:50… it’s now 6:40… the dishes are washed… the children have come in… the cook stokes the fire again… the last light of day is fading…
7:00… two friends on a moto…
7:47… what a feast! Beans and rice and our favorite tomato and fish sauce from Mary’s kitchen… 😋
Carli stayed with Anita for the night… Mary hosted her well! 💞
Sunday, July 16 - After spending a night in the village, Carli enjoys a meal of spaghetti and sauce with Jeremy’s family…
“When I consider the heavens…”
The cooks are making mud stew… I hear the patter of the rain…
“Oh no, it’s beginning to rain!” (Up to this point Jaime has not like the rainy part of the rainy season here… the getting wet part…)
We are kinda trapped…
🎶 “Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain…” 🎶
“Mommy, I caught it all by myself!”
Jaime now sees the fun aspect of rain…
On the way home we came upon this fellow who ha got stuck in a roadside washout… we lifted the back tire onto the pavement and then pushed him backwards…
He couldn’t do much by himself cause he had two goats tied to his waist… one behind and one in front… also a heavy sack tied on the back… he was so grateful… the rain continued to fall…
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Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you
Heart💞Partners & Prayer🙏Warriors
You are bringing smiles to faces and joy to hearts!
Kingdom Principle does not place greater Value or Blessing on the Sower/Seed/Supporter at the homefront vs the Sower/Seed/Worker at the frontlines… Seeds of Compassion & Faith are guaranteed to produce Eternal Impact and Reward 🙌
Blessings and Favor over all in Jesus Name!!