Posts by Roy Mason
Second Week of Ministry Has Begun
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…
Read MoreFirst Week of Ministry Completed
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…
Read MoreThe Best of Times…
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…
Read MoreFrom Obstacles to Opportunities
Akuse, Ghana — It’s nearly noon time on Thursday as I write these words. The morning began with obstacles and frustrations. We discovered that we had a problem with the clutch on one of our Rovers which forced us to use a public taxi to convey us from school to school for my assigned appointments…
Read MoreGod Is At Work in Schools!
Akuse, Ghana — The alarm was set for 5:30am. Thus began another day for us in Ghana. We were told that we had to set out for our first schools at 6:30 this morning and our national team did not disappoint in their time of arrival. We traveled down some more of the rough, muddy…
Read MoreAnother Good Day in Ghana!
Akuse, Ghana — Today is a another good one in Ghana. The rains that were lacking in this place during the usual rainy season (May-Aug) showed themselves today! We awoke to a gentle shower but as the morning moved forward the intensity of the rain increased. Jeff’s team traveled an hour to his appointed school…
Read MoreGraciousness: A Matter of the Heart and of the Head
Akuse, Ghana — These are good days in Ghana. Our national team, led by Dr. Samuel “Sammy” Lartey, display and exemplify the character traits of genuine men of God. They are servants who desire nothing more than have the opportunity to share the Gospel with others. Their gracious spirits are infectious and certainly are used…
Read MoreTeam’s Safe Arrival in Akuse, Ghana!
Akuse, Ghana — Our team of our arrived safely in Accra on Saturday. After an uneventful flight from JKF, Jeff Andler, James McLean, Andy Poe and I were met at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra by our national director, Dr. Sammy Lartey. Within a few seconds our friendships were renewed and it seemed like…
Read More“There’s Something Evil in our Society …”
Yesterday’s terrible tragedy at the Washington Navy Yard reminds us of the absolute horrors of the human condition. During her Press Conference, Dr. Janis Orlowski, Chief Medical Officer at Washington, D.C.’s MedStar Washington Hospital Center said, “there’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate.” After listening…
Read MoreG3 Living
Over the weekend I learned a great deal about human nature. For some reason my spiritual senses were particularly sensitive to the fact that people are too often complaining! It seemed no matter where I was I heard people complaining to someone about their current state. I was walking down the sidewalk of a Target…
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