Praise Assembly of God Parsonage

Pastor Lahai, is a forward thinker, he wants to have this parsonage so the church will be able to offer the pastor a nice place to live and the cost will only be paid once instead of yearly rent being raised every year. Right now it is being used as Sunday School space.

Inside currently at Praise AG

The temporary wall will be replaced as the other half of the sanctuary is completed. This back part will be the home of our second Youth Development Computer Training Center. We are helping them purchase materials to finish the walls and roof and a couple of other things in exchange for space for our center. The Pastor will be available for discipleship training. We are so excited as we are partnering to build the Kingdom of God! This church already has a lot of youth attending. Pray God will open many doors and bless this work!

We don't work all the time, Danny is cleaning live shrimp. These are river shimp and huge! Our friends at the auto spares store (auto parts) gave them to us. They are so delicious, they taste like and have the texture of lobster. We made them into garlic and butter shrimp and also shrimp stir fry. There are some real perks to Africa!

Mende Church Kpatama, Sierra Leone

Pastor Alex lives on our street in Bo#2, he is the Pastor of this and 2 other close churches. These are village churches. When you think of Africa and music this is the church you have in your mind. We will be filming one of thier services so you can see and hear for yourself.

We were able to bring some new and used clothing out to this church. They love us here, they call us the Mom and Dad of thier church. They have made us lunch two different times when we have come to visit thier service. Native rice, (purple in color) and fish with a tomato sauce over it. It was delicious! This church is a wooden structure with mud packed in between the wood, a dirt floor and Zinc roof.

These are the four drummers for worship service. You will find at this church men sit on one side and woman on the other. Danny is hoping to buy one of the same kind of drums they use. It didn't show up in this picture, but it is a round long piece of wood with long slits cut in it and they play it using drum sticks while holding it between thier feet.

These ladies play the native shakers. They are so good at it and make it look so easy. I hope I can learn to play it too! We will be having a three night Jesus Film Campaign in this village September 24-26, 2009. The villagers are already telling people about it. Pray for a harvest of souls for the Kingdom of God!

Danny and Cindy up front enjoying the beautiful worship music. The ladies that play the shakers lead the worship sevice too. They have beautiful voices.

Our young man who does laundry for us didn't show up today, so Danny decided to wash them himself and BK helped him. Cindy was busy working on finishing up her first sermon notes.

Kids at the Sunday night Bible time in Bo #2

We have a great time singing songs and learning about Jesus. You're looking at the future Pastor's, Evangelists, and Missionaries to Salone and the world. Jesus loved the little children and we do too!

We start off small but grow and grow each Sunday

Cindy is trying so hard to play the native shaker? I think any of these kids is better than her. It looks so easy when you see the locals play it.

We grew this night to about 40 or so.

Donatos is my interpreter tonight. He leads the class every other Sunday. He recently went forward at the Missions Convention here in Bo. He feels God call to be used as a Missionary. Please pray for him, he loves the Lord and is a blessing to us all. He is a young man still in High School. Because of the recent war, men up to age 25 are still finishing thier high school education.