What Encouragement A Short-Term Team Can Bring!

 We can't begin to express in words the benefits we have received from the Northside Mission Team that recently visited. So many things happened. Let me name a few, we:

• taught children about the importance of personal hygiene.
• played with the children.
• prepared sack lunches each day.
• received gifts from the village - (Bob received a Gonja smock, guinea fowl and yams)
• met with the village health team
• washed the feet of Saliu, our newest story-teller working with the Fulani. We gave him the Fulani NT in audio format as well as a water purifier to help improve his health.
• told the children stories (Tony really got into it.)
• observed how they make FuFu, one of their main foods.
• created a bicycle water pump to help fill the tanks at the village water purifier the team previously installed.
• taught personal hygiene at the village where we hope to install the next water purifier.
• enjoyed great fellowship.
• participated in the naming ceremony for Isaac's new baby girl.
• celebrated Terry's birthday.
• visited the market.
• had a lot of fun

Thanks Northside for a wonderful time of encouragement and service. Thanks team for a job well done.

God was truly glorified through you and your sacrifice. Amy and I love you and really appreciate you.

Sunday with the Northside Team

If you haven't had a chance to see the pictures of the team at work and play please check out our website at: http://ruffupdate.com/Photos.html

Sunday began with breakfast and then attending Isaac's church in his backyard under a Shea Nut Tree. Church, the oral way, is very simple yet powerful. We had a great time.

After Church we came back to our house along with Isaac and Comfort (his wife). We listened to their story. Isaac was raised Muslim and disowned by his family for three years after his conversion. Isaac shared about the opposition he received when he moved back to his home village as a Christian and how his parents and the village are beginning to respond to him more positively. He still has a few that are still persecuting him so we need to continually pray for him and the believers there.

Then I took the team down to the spring-fed garden and we took a look at what we have been able to do in the hottest/dryest time of the year.

As we were return to our house it began to rain. The ground is so parched and we have been praying for rain, so what a way to end the day.

The team has been doing a wonderful job.

Keep praying.