New Roads: Our Third Week in Côte d'Ivoire

Our third week brought us down some new roads to new places and allowed us have some new experiences. Bobby had two opportunities to share from the pulpit. On Thursday, he spoke at the Bible Study in Yamoussoukro and this was his first time doing so in French (outside of the practice he had in France in front of our classmates).

On Friday, we headed to the north part of the country for the weekend to a city named Korhogo, which is about a four-hour drive from Yamoussoukro (where we’ve been staying). On this road that was new to us, we encountered goats, a boy chasing his cow that had gotten loose, many potholes and some beautiful scenery.

Korhogo is where Pastor Yeo, the head of the Church of God in CI, is pastor of the local church. We had first met Pastor Yeo when he was in the U.S. for the Global Gathering in 2012.

Under Construction: The new CHOG in Kolevogo

We had a busy day on Saturday traveling to Kolevogo, a village where a new Church of God is being built. We went with the Sellers, Pastor Yeo, and his wife, Ann. We met and prayed with the church leaders there. Then, we drove on to another recently built church in a nearby village before going to visit Pastor Josué. You may have seen our prayer requests for him in the past. He is a pastor who has become blind due to meningitis. Continue to pray with us for his complete healing.

Praying with the church leaders in Kolevogo

A message in three languages
(Korhogo CHOG)

  On Sunday, Bobby preached in the service at the Korhogo CHOG     in English, Larry (Sellers) translated into French and a congregant  from the church then translated the French into Senoufo (local language). Jenny and Moore joined the kids in children’s church. All three of us were given Senoufo names during the service, which was an honor. (Bobby: SILUE Kolotiologafolo, Jenny: SORO Tamagagnon, Moore: SILUE Zié) Moore’s name, “Zié”, means “first-born.” After the service, we greeted many people before heading back to Yamoussoukro.

Greeting people after the service at Korhogo CHOG

We’ve added a few more pictures this week to give you a glimpse of some of the “new roads” we’ve traveled.