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This morning Elijah, our
driver, was unavailable until after church so we did not have a ride to
church this morning. Jeremiah called
him at 1:00pm to see if he was on his way and the pastor had just started
his sermon. It was 3:00pm when
Elijah made it to the house. So from
the time we awoke (Dave beat me up this morning by 5 minutes and wanted
everyone to know) until we left for the ELWA compound at about 3:30pm we
simply used the Lord’s Day to rest and recover. We talked, studied and journalled. Dave and Gayla spent a lot of time
talking about each church’s college ministry and who had the greatest
college students. They also talked a
lot about their children and the trials and triumphs they have progressed
through.
For breakfast we had our
usual scrambled eggs and bread. The
bread is wonderfully fresh (baked by local people) and the hot tea makes me
wonder why I drink coffee at home. By
the way, David was up earlier than me because I worked on the website
changes last night until midnight (I just wanted everyone to know). Lunch was a spiced rice with meat mixture
and it was very good. Gertrude always
makes way too much for us.
Gayla is the official picture
taker for the trip and Shadrach is concerned that she’s not getting good
enough pictures from the front seat of the truck (she made a comment
jokingly that she should be riding in the back taking pictures). So we looked down from the porch and
Jeremiah and Shadrach were cleaning out the back of the truck and had put a
bench seat from the back of the van into the truck, facing backwards up
against the cab. Gertrude heard
about it and thought Gayla would be too hot back there in the sun so she
sat up front until it cooled off some. Elijah drove us through town to see the various
governmental buildings and other sites. In the middle of town Gayla and I moved to
the back of the truck so she could get some clear shots of the city. We rode the rest of the way to ELWA’s
compound like that and it was pretty funny watching her try to keep her
hair in place and not bounce off the seats when we hit the inevitable
pothole. The ELWA compound was
interesting especially with all the people at their beach on a Sunday
afternoon. I had never seen so many
people there before. We met with
the head of the ELWA ministry, James Kesselly, and dropped off some items
sent over by Libby Muchmore. I also
have another item for another gentleman that will be delivered at the
conference. While there Dave made
contact with a key EQUIP leader in Monrovia
and we have an appointment to see him tomorrow morning. I spotted some young ladies at the
Samaritan’s Purse house and invited them to the conference. It turned out that they were interns for
the summer and will be traveling back on the same flight with us on Sunday.
They’ve been here since July living
in the bush and doing various training assignments. You find neat people everywhere. As we were standing there talking to the
SP ladies (one was from North Carolina and the other from New Jersey)
Lincoln Brownell, president of the Baptist Seminary, drove up behind us
with a van load of folks from Virginia and Maryland over to visit the
country. They were interested in
doing work with orphans so we struck up a conversation right away. We also discussed our container which is
still stuck in the port and Lincoln
suggested that we meet with Mrs. Elfreda Tamba of the finance ministry to
see if she could help speed things up. We will be on her doorstep tomorrow
morning.
After we left ELWA we stopped
by the Carver
School to see Eric (I
met him at the Good Governance Commission meeting on my last visit) as
Shadrach’s mother had asked that he help someone over there. Gayla and I had fun playing with a little
boy that lived there. He discovered
the rear bumper of the truck was shiny and spent several minutes making
faces to himself in the “mirror”.
We left Carver and headed
home. The traffic was moving much
better on the way home but there were thousands of people out along the
roads. How hundreds keep from
getting run over each night defies logic. Just before arriving home we stop at the
internet café where I’m providing this update. It’s Gayla’s fault that this is taking so
long as she made me redo the website to have the pictures placed on a
different page by day for those on slow internet connections and/or who
didn’t want to keep looking through the same pictures prior to getting to
the new ones.
I’ll post some of the
hundreds of pictures that Gayla took tomorrow as we have time. The meetings with a few key people and
getting the container out of the port are our priorities. Please pray that we will find grace with
the governmental leaders who control this container.
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