Dear Family of Christ Jesus,
Praise God Almighty for a safe journey on our last trip and we thank you all for you unceasing prayers for us. We hope that everyone is doing great. Its been some time now since we sent you an email and we know that you are eagerly waiting to hear the good news of the good work that we (both the American and Ghanaian teams) have been entrusted with. The work is getting bigger and we were received by most of the people we visited both Christians and idolaters alike.
We have also met with some tribes and heard our new friends speak languages we did not understand. In fact, communication at some points were difficult especially when we met the Nkonya people in the Eastern region whom we were told had migrated from the Volta region into the Eastern region. Nkonya tribe are originally from the Volta region and we have not gone to the region. The last time we sent you an email was when we visited the Ashanti region. We were blessed to meet and give out Talking Bibles in Brong Ahafo region. In the Brong Ahafo, these are the towns visited so far; Primase, Basa, Kofi Djan, Kwame Danso, Nframa, Watoro, Labo, and Dogokrom. We visited the suburbs of the mentioned towns because the towns were towns with electricity and we were looking for only remote areas.
Most of the people we met in the Brong Ahafo were Northerners because the Akan people have settled in those towns with electricity and access to drinking or pipe water and the Northerners are their laborers or work for them on the farm. We have met good people in this region ever since we started and it has also been the region where we have received a gift from the farmers. They give us maize and other farm produce. After visiting Kwabena Abantaba with Dave and Tory, he offered us a goat and have always given farm produce. In the Brong Ahafo we need the following languages Komkomba (also know as Likpakpaln or Kpankpam), Kusasi, Mamprule and also some more Akan-Bron.
In the Western region, we visited the following towns Goka, Kaase, Nyame Bekyere, Adabokrom, and Yamatwa and then later headed to the coast where we encountered a problem with our engine. The roads in this region was the poorest so far. We also learnt that the Western region has three major languages and they are Ahanta, Nzema and Sehwi. On our previous trips, we visited only the Nzema speaking people and traveling up north helped meet the two other tribes. Kindly place on order for the two other languages. We still have the Nzema and would give it out on the next trip. In addition to the above requested languages, please add Nkonya.
We want to also talk a little about the people we are meeting. Like our Lord Jesus Christ said, the poor will always be here earth. And for that matter even though we have seen how poor the people are, we cannot support them but we want to take this opportunity to ask you to collect second hand clothing and shoes to bring to our new friends here in Ghana. The missionary are helping but help is offered at those villages where the churches have their branches. We are traveling to very remote places where there are no hospitals, schools, or even churches. We cannot give money to them but we can help cloth those who are half naked and bring shoes to the bare-footed children.
There are so many villages to visit and we cannot do all this alone. We are hoping to recruit as many villager as we can to bring the talking Bibles to the parts of the nation where there are no roads. Paul suggested we bring used clothing because it would help them. We have always appeared as simple men who want them to feel like we have similar opportunity when it comes to the work of God. There have sometimes been problems and we were also rejected at some point. The Missionary have always drove in good cars and have appeared as men with class. They are treated as special people and would not go into the forest to bring the Word of God.
We are bringing light to those in darkness and even though sometimes the work is hard, the joy supersedes the pain and whenever we write to you we totally forget some of the problems. We thank God for the car which is being shipped to us. We do believe that we can reach many places and it would be able to withstand the roads. We have met with with at least seventy villages.
We have also given out almost all the Akan-Asante talking Bibles. Paul and I have talked about ways and means in other words strategies to make the work easy. As mere men we cannot do much without God’s help. Kindly help if you have strategies that can help us. May God bless you all.
Paul and Kwame.