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Going Back to KI Village – January 1st

As the team leader for this trip, I often was praised for my initiative to head up an expedition to volunteer in India . Often people would say “That’s something I could never do.” or “Wow! You are such a good person.” But one thing that most [...]

It’s hard to believe my stay in Ghana has come to an end already. The time always flies by so fast as Meshach and I run from one task to the next. The rest of the volunteer work crew will be here until late Thursday evening, but I head home tomorrow night as my “new [...]

ACCRA, Ghana – Opposition leader John Atta Mills was declared Ghana’s next president Saturday in the closest electoral race this West African nation has ever seen. The peaceful ballot secured Ghana’s place as a beacon of democracy on a volatile continent.
Ghana also is now one of the few countries in Africa to successfully transfer [...]

The wait is over and the result was finally announced nationally at 11am this morning. Ghana’s new president is NDC leader Atta Mills who narrowly defeated the current ruling party, called NPP. Its amazing how similar the Ghanaian political machine is the US version, mostly because of its two party system.
In 2000, the NDC, or [...]

We took a side trip to Kakum Rain Forest today to see the very old and very tall trees and traverse the rope bridges at 120 feet up.  There were seven bridges erected by Canadians and maintained and replaced by Ghanaians.  Our tour guides Ebon and Rex were very unhappy with being that high up; [...]

Hi friends!
Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve written. Internet access is a little sketch here. I’ve been thorgoughly enjoying every moment of my trip. Each day I wake up, I think hmmmmmmm, I wonder what random awesome thing will happen today! And God continues to surprise me. We are in the second village we [...]

the shift key is not working on this computer so please forgive my mistakes.  right now, we are out of abeka and traveling westward along the cape coast highway for some much needed rest and relaxation.
today was an incredibly busy day as we were plucked from our hotel early by our tour guides, eben and [...]

Shawn and I attended a portion of the midnight service held at Meshach’s church on New Year’s Eve; there was a lot of singing and dancing with Meshach leading the service.  We were able to follow the service because it was held in two languages.  Everyone was dressed in very colorful and beautiful clothes.  Today, New [...]

DAY FOUR in Gummallapadu Village

Hello day four in GP. Today I felt like we made a break through in the amount of help we were allowed to give on the work sites. The last few days we were limited to carrying cement and rocks or passing bricks to the builders on the scaffolding. Today, some [...]

DAY THREE at Gummallapadu Village

As we drove away at the end of day three the GP village children chased our cars to the edge of the village, laughing and waving and calling our names or the Tellagu words for brother and sister, and the adults, smiling from ear to ear, waved us off [...]