I noticed when I was back in the USA people don't share the name they will give their baby until it is born. People want it to be a surprise? People don't want others to steal the name? People really haven't chosen the name yet and just say "we don't want to tell"? Who knows. But maybe this came from Ghana :)I went to Pastor Fatau and his wife Victoria's Baby Naming Ceremony. In Tamale when you have a baby you don't name it until after 40 days and with that name they have a party of sorts. The mother in that 40 days does not go out to visit people or go to church because babies are pretty much 100% breast fed they don't want to take the baby out in case it would catch a sickness.They keep the name quite secret until the ceremony when they give it to the Pastor (or whoever is doing the ceremony on a slip of paper) and he reads it out. They did the ceremony at 7.30am and we stayed until about 9-9:30am. It starts to get hot by that time and people want to get out of the sun. I know some women came before 4am to help cook food and set up.
Reverend Abukari gave a message (in Dagbani so I did not understand it) and shared the name of the baby. His name is Bismark. Other church leaders and pastors came and prayed and blessed the new baby.
Reverend Abukari gave a message (in Dagbani so I did not understand it) and shared the name of the baby. His name is Bismark. Other church leaders and pastors came and prayed and blessed the new baby.
He is a cutie!!When the ceremony finished people stay around and talk or head home. We are all given a take-away container of rice and beans and a drink.
Praise the Lord for Baby Bismark!
Praise the Lord for Baby Bismark!