CPM Update: Leaves Family for 7 Months Searching for Man of Peace
MBAH: In December of 2006, we reported that Pastor Adjake of Mbah left his wife in charge of the church, which mostly comprises of teenagers and moved out to another village in search of a man of peace.
Pastor Ajake says everything has worked well except finding a man of peace and starting a church.
According to him, he is loved and known as one of the many small businessmen who provide basic commodities for the villages. His new career puts him in position to meet and discuss with a variety of people on what they would need to buy on market day. It is a day set by the villagers, when the entire village will meet to buy or sell whatever commodity or produce they might have. (Market day is once a week.) There are no stores or shops where items can easily be purchased. Commodities are brought in from the city or far away towns. Everyone in the village meet on this day to buy or sell. If you did not purchase a basic item during this time you will have to wait the following week market day to do so. Therefore everyone made sure that their basic needs were available during “market day”. Therefore they would inform traders like Ajake in advance what they need the coming Market Day. So Adjake had the opportunity of meeting a lot of people.
It has been a little over seven months since he left his family and started his new career in search of his man of peace. He says the business aspect and the relationship building is paying off and very effective, but he has not been successful in finding a man of peace. He is expected to return to Mbad by the end of this month to pray and consider another village and strategy.
