Ghana Updates

By the time you read this our entire team will have arrived safely in Ghana.  The last two to arrive, Dr. David Ney and Andy Poe texted me when they were sitting on the airplane in New York telling me that they were in fact leaving.  I’m thankful for the way God has been proving…

JFK Airport — Our team arrived at 5 am from our overnight flight home.  The project, which ended for us with  nine schools on Friday morning, was a wonderful experience.  Our drive from Juapong to Accra was not without moments of excitement.  I was driving the team back in one of our Land Rovers and…

JUAPONG, GHANA– Our team is headed back to Accra today for our scheduled flight home tonight.  During our days here we have shared the Gospel in 120 separate venues  to audiences of nearly 35,000 people.  By God’s grace we saw 23,751 individuals indicate their first-time decision for Christ.  Our national team members will conduct two…

JUAPONG, GHANA– The wispy clouds brought both shade and a cool breeze for our school ministry this morning.  With students gathered under the shade of trees we shared the gospel message with many people today.  All in all we have seen over 20,000 individuals indicate their decision to receive Jesus Christ as personal Lord and…

Juapong, Ghana — 18,638. That’s the number of people who have indicated their decision to receive Jesus Christ thus far during this project in Ghana.  Through noon on Wednesday we have shared the Gospel in 97 different venues to total crowds nearing 30,000.  This has been, and continues to be, a wonderful ministry where God…

Juapong, Ghana — Sometimes the ordinary is extraordinary!  Let me tell you about the ministry of the mundane. Often the daily things of life seem  mundane and insignificant, but nothing with God is so. There is heavenly “rightness” about continuing on during times of tedious sameness. Today our ministry here continues on the same paths. …

Juapong, Ghana — Our morning began around 6am.  After breakfast Jeff and I set out for our day of school ministries.  With each of us and our national team members loaded into our Land Rovers we began our way down the main road from town.  The wide dirt road harkened me back to days of…

Juapong, Ghana — It’s Sunday as I write this.  We have moved to and settled into our new place for the remainder of our project in Ghana.  Leaving Akuse on Saturday morning we traveled the hour back to the main road and drove to this place under a cool and cloudy sky that was relief…

Akuse, Ghana — “It was the best of times … it was the worst of times.”  While Dickens’ wrote this phase to open his classic, “The Tale of Two Cities” I can borrow it and apply it to this day in Ghana. I left our hotel at 6:30am for my trip to our first school…