Letter from Paul and Heartwill, June 23, 2014
Paul and I have just arrived from another interesting trip. We are doing well by the grace of God and we hope the Good Lord
has also kept and still granting you peace. Its a World Cup soccer season and our dear friends are enjoying via the commentaries from the various dialects on the radio. Its Paul’s idea that we congratulate the USA Team ( Those of you in the regeneration center who are following the tournament so far), Kwame and I are not so happy about the result which can cause the elimination of the Ghanaian soccer team from the World Cup. Tory, we believe follows the soccer tournament because Kwame said he and Tory talked earlier about the game. In all most all the last two regions we visited, villagers came together to listen to commentaries on their radio sets and it really helped us to talk to them and even used their gathering as an example of what we expect to be be as far the study groups go. We enjoyed this trip so well because we met many of our friends and we had the chance to listen to them regarding their needs.
The talking Bibles are in good condition and so far we are impressed by how the Krobo or Dangme people are really taking
good care of their few talking Bibles. There are numerous Dangme villages in the Eastern region and from Bokunaw all the way to Asesewa we have so many people waiting to receive the talking Bibles. Some of the villages have already created a place where they can come together and listen and discuss. Regardless of different churches in this part of the Eastern region, the people are so United and share the talking Bibles so well.
The Dangme tribe is the only non Akan tribe in the Eastern region therefore they hold tight their customs and its hard for
even religion to separate these people. At Bokunaw and Koryire our two dear brothers Awaitey and Osmond Amuzu are bringing the talking Bibles into the bushes around Koryire and also encouraging and helping the other Dangme people with no electricity or phone reception use the Bibles as well. Looking at the number of Dangme villages and the roads to travel on, we want to bring so many men to help us because a whole two is not enough to visit them all.
The Sefwi people also pose the same challenge to us. Paul and I have discovered so many villages in the Upper part of
Western region. Good news is that, they are willing to get rid of the idol practices but as babies they will need us to spend some time with them and take part in most of their scripture learning groups. They are also many languages which are not written or learnt in school in this region. We have spent many time on each trip with Elder Agyemang Badu of Kwafukwa seeking his help to unite the Christian from his town and Mantukwa to help bring the Gospel to the other villagers in the region.
We still go to the Ashanti region but we are not at the moment looking forward to increase the number of Talking Bibles we
have in this region. Majority of the villages have electricity and Cinema or places where they show movies are big thing in this region causing distraction. And the part of the region where we have talking Bibles are hard to reach in this rainy season. We went to J1 Dagaati and was unable to go all the way to Anyinofi so we went round the region by way of Atebubu back into Ashanti region. Seneso 1 and Seneso 2 are coming together to start their own scripture learning group.
We bring you greetings from all four regions. Please send us some talking Bibles soon and may God bless you all.
Paul and Heartwill