When Laminu first put his trust in the Lord, he began riding his bicycle 17 miles each week to the nearest church, and 17 miles back home.
Laminu is one of the Koma people who live in the Northern Region of Ghana and speak Konni. He comes from the village of Nangruma, which had neither a church nor a formal school. Koma villages are sometimes described by their neighbours as ‘overseas’, because all the major paths leading to the area cross rivers and are impassable by vehicles in the rainy season.
In the 1990s, a young graduate called Konlan Kpeebi came to work with the Koma people. The community wondered – would he agree to stay in an area that wasn’t accessible in the rainy season? But Konlan told them not to worry; he was prepared to live with them. Because of his commitment to them, they gave him the Konni name Minchoti, meaning ‘God loves us’.
