West Africa - Togo

Today in church we met The Smiths, Assemblies of God missionaries that are leading many to Christ in Togo, and developing churches and leaders for the churches.  They are doing a great work as witnessing in West Africa alone is scary enough with the Muslim population itself, but also because in Africa there are many towns that practice other religions including voodoo.  So they come up against the dark spirits of evil moreso as they work to establish the light of Christ.

She brought with her various items from Africa, there was a wooden flute which looked like a bunch of bamboo chutes glued together and then it was polished etc, and there was drums (small) and a homemade tambourine and something Brad thought was a cowbell but it wasn't , we're not sure what it was...there was an item that had a wooden handle and what appeared to be hair (maybe of an animal such as a horse or another) that we can only assume was used to swat at flies?  there's no way it was for any kind of musical instraument, but it was interesting none the less.

It was interesting to hear her stories of the many who are coming to Christ over there and to see her zest for the Lord and the work she is doing with her hubby, now he wasn't there as he was in South Bend today visiting another church.  It's great to meet the missionaries our church supports and so far this year we've met three.  Two who do their work for Africa and one whom is going to France, yep believe it not France needs missionaries just the same.

Otherwise the day has been long, we spent a better part of it cleaning the kitchen, and sweeping, we're still not done as we need to do some serious decluttering but we've at least made a dent.  And I now have a working horn on my car again, Brad finally got it going and with the snow coming back for us a horn is going to be nice as I don't know what it is but Indy drivers seem to forget what they're doing the moment the roads get wet and the moment any snow falls.

Today is also the Colts game, which we're watching (mostly against my will) as they play the New York Jets and whoever wins this game goes to the Superbowl.  So go Colts!!!