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Trip to Paramakatoi, Guyana
On Wednesday 19th May, 2010 the Caravan aircraft flew off Ogle Airstrip, Guyana at 9:50 a.m., touched down at Kaieteur at 10:48 a.m., landed at Kato at 11:15 a.m. and finally reached my destination, Paramakatoi Village up in the Pakaraima Mountain range, at 11:30 a.m.
At the airstrip I was met by three of our member ladies and some children and ‘reported’ my presence in the village to the new Toshoa (captain) of the village.
I checked in at the village Guest House and spent some time chatting with the members who came to see me. I shared some sweets/candy with the children. I brought in 12 copies of some specially selected songs/hymns I did, CD’s with the music, a DVD with ten of Dr Tkach’s Speaking of Life programs, some foodstuffs for the ladies to prepare my meals and some supplements and medications for some of our brethren there.
Brethren after services
We arranged for meeting at 3 p.m. Twenty-six persons attended. After some announcements I led some songs using the music from a battery-operated CD player I took in with me. I read from a Speaking of Life text, Why Church? and explained the reasons we need to attend church, that besides coming to church, all we do at home, work and everywhere is worship, that we must grow in grace and knowledge. We sang some children’s songs from the new ‘hymnal’ and the children enjoyed them very much. I spoke to the children about Jesus’ love for them as we sang these songs. I gave out some more exercise books and later some pens and pencils so much needed by the children for school.
After services I took a few group pictures. The rain began to fall so the brethren used the opportunity to watch five of the ten Speaking of Life programs thanks to the DVD player hooked up to a TV set provided by the Guest House. Electricity is provided to the Guest House from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. I promised to send in more DVD and song CDs from time to time but they would need their own DVD player/TV set and a car battery (electricity is not available to the villagers, except to the school, Guest House and medical buildings there that are government-owned) to play them at their meetings.
On Thursday 20th May members came to see me as the day progressed. One of our team leaders came to ask me to pray for her daughter who was having a hard time delivering her baby at the clinic. She would be flown to the city hospital for a possible caesarian section to deliver her baby if necessary. We prayed for her. The child was delivered safely later that day to the relief of the mother, grandmother, relatives and nurse/midwife.