The fall, Mrs. Dunga was lead to the Lord by her sister. She has five girls and lives a couple miles up the road from me which is about a two hour walk from our church. Ever since she accepted the Lord she has been riding pretty faithfully with us to church each Sunday.
Well, back in November when Adie and I were visiting them, we realized that her kitchen desperately needed to be re-thatched. She has been a widow for nearly 5 years and with five girls can use all the extra help. She lives in a pretty typical
village style house made of mud blocks with a tin roof. Her cooking space or kitchen is a seperate room-building near the house. It was leaking too much this past rainy season and was abandoned until it could be repaired. Realizing that she needed help rethantching her kitchen, we organized a work day with our church men. Adie and I, headed out this morning for the church where we met up with 8 guys volunteers. We left the church and went straightway for Mrs. Dunga's and picked up another 3 more en route. All together, we had eleven men from about ages 15-25 helping us and within four hours we had her kitchen roof mended and rethatched.
The Bible talks about how we as believers must take care of the widows and the orphans. Here, in Togo, there seems to be such a great opportunity to actually put this commandment into practice. Needs are so great here but it was awesome to see our young men step up, fill a need and help out one of our widows!
