Teaching Trip to Africa

The church building was a new one, made with bricks burned by the church members. It had a metal roof, whereas many churches only have a grass thatch.
	All they had for seats for the congregation were large dried mud bricks. The interior work was not yet finished, but even when it is, the seats will be dried mud mounds.
The church could not afford very good tree poles for framing the roof, and it would not be hard for such a roof to blow away in a storm.
	The congregation drifted in from around the village. Churches there do not meet by the clock but by the sun and by circumstances. A younger leader who assists Brother Papaya stood up to welcome us. Notice that for the most part the men sit on one side and the women on the other.
The leaders customarily sit around the platform facing the audience. The communion table was tiny. The whole congregation drank from two cups.
	Many more people would have come from surrounding churches had they known of our visit.
On our journey back to the mission we passed a stream where women washed their clothes and laid them out on the grass to dry.