THE VILLAGE

Yarasi, Western Region, GHANA 1/27/2011

It could be a village in any number of places, countries or locals around the world. This particular village happened to be in Ghana, West Africa. It lies in the Western Region of Ghana and is a small village by the name of Yarasi; a quaint little place in a valley beside the river. It is a cocoa producing agricultural area with mostly farmers relying on the cocoa crop for the their yearly harvest and livelihood.

We had come here to work going house to house where we would share the message of Jesus Christ. happened to be in Ghana, West Africa. It lies in the Western Region of Ghana and is a small village by the name of Yarasi; a quaint little place in a valley beside the river. It is a cocoa producing agricultural area with mostly farmers relying on the cocoa crop for the their yearly harvest and livelihood.

Each day that we worked in Yarasi brought us in contact with so many amazing people. Even though most were just simple farmers with little education, they were very religious, but had very little Bible knowledge of the scriptures. It reminded me of Paul’s words from Acts 17:23, “What you therefore worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.” We would have an open air meeting each evening in the community open air market and show a Christian film to them before preaching the word of God. This was a new experience for most in this village as the nearest cinema is hundreds of miles away from them and most have only seen a television a few times in their lives.

As we taught day after day, many came to a better understanding of the scriptures and over 30 gave their lives to Christ in the water’s of baptism. As we left this village on that last day of work and waved good bye, we left them in the hands of God. Thirty new babes in Christ, along with a small group of believers that had already established the church in that small village, all in the care of God’s hand of protection, strength and blessings. Oh, it is so hard to leave when you know they need to learn so much, but that is the way it works so often. I know that the Apostles must have felt the same way on many of their missionary journeys.

As we left Yarasi and traveled down the dusty road I said a silent prayer for these new Christians, now my new brothers and sisters in Christ. May God bless their new found faith and may they grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

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