Yesterday I took the girls, M, M, & S, down the road to a nearby village to do teaching with the women. The TBA (trained birthing attendant) who knew of our coming had already informed the women in the morning. Now she went back around to say we were here. She was gone over an hour encouraging women to come. And they came. There were probably 60 women gathered before she herself returned. The girls started the teaching on malaria. Before we finished maybe we had 100 women gathered. They were very interested in the teaching, knowing better how to care for their children, what to do when they had a fever, what treatment they needed. Yet the treatment isn’t readily available. There are young men who are roving ‘pharmacist’. But their medicine is not reliable nor is the treatment they give necessarily accurate.
The girls have been doing this teaching weekly in the village of Galmi going to each larger neighborhood. It’s been encouraging to here reports, how the women have questions and are eager to learn something.
Today I went to Magaria to teach the women. It’s been months since I have been there on a Wednesday. I go regularly to church there, although attending one church one week and the other the next. Then I go out to Jinkai to visit a small growing church once a month. I enjoy these visits, yet I miss getting more in-depth time with the women. So today’s visit was a real encouragement to me as we did a Bible lesson together and had a time of prayer. One of the ladies had a minor stroke earlier this week. She is regaining her strength, but it scares me to think what could happen any other time. She has tried to learn to read but . . .so we worked on memorizing verses. Today she quoted Psalm 23 for me. I encouraged her to keep reviewing this and let God’s Word strengthen her.
