Day 26 Week 4

I have been away from my main village of Obanda now for over a week and it is amazing when you are away from even a temporary home how you look forward to returning. I was planning to go back to Obanda this past Sunday, but well will just say adaptation has strike again. I am loving this trip, but it is becoming very tiresome. I am speaking every night and traveling during the day to the next village via a small 100 cc motor bike that is really a one seater! I am learning so much and appreciate all that God is doing in my life. It has become a challenge in preparing for each night. The services are full-blown Sunday morning services, so my lessons become sermons. I am not able to put together the same type of sermons as I would in my homiletics’ class, but I know that what I am delivering is not of me, but of God and a sermon of the truth from the Bible never goes wrong. I love seeing all the children and meeting all the people, for they have been very warm and welcoming! Today I thought I saw another American, but it turns out that it actually was an albino Ghanaian!
Yesterday Pastor Hayford left for Accra and I began my trip with Pastor Newman for the next three days. We stopped in Tutukpene for last nights service and today we continued on to Ashebre. The people are very nice here, but I feel little more of an outsider in the way they respond to me. I kind of do not blame them for I am an outsider coming and so I really don’t feel like I have much authority in my deliverance with them. The other thing that I am finally getting use to is that every time I have been speaking to the church members or visiting them at their homes is the public breastfeeding of the babies. One minute I am talking about Christ receiving rest and seeking time of prayer and then bam! A mother begins breastfeeding right in the front row. This has been very helpful in teaching me to preach through distractions, because the kids will always cry, people will always be getting up and church never runs at 100% every Sunday. Although not the way I was expecting to learn to handle distractions, none the least God has worked again in HIS OWN UNIQUE WAY!