Glimpses of our Life in Ghana

    We often get asked if they celebrate Christmas in Ghana, or how they celebrate Christmas. In many ways it is similar, in many ways it is different. The most obvious is the weather and did you ever think about how much Christmas decor, songs and even food center around cold, snowy weather. Well even though we don't have the snow, you still see decorations with snow flakes and hear people sing Jingle Bells.   I really think Christmas itself is celebrated well. We were invited to our local school for their Christmas Caroling. And many schools would have a special morning of singing carols and have a Christmas party of some kind before they go on Christmas break. There have been a lot of church services. Some "all night", more like 9 - 12, like the one just across a field from us that we listened to the sermon after we went to bed since they had very loud loud speakers!   Sadly Christmas is overshadowed by the party that happens between Christmas and New Years. Many ...

November is already gone and December is quickly passing as well. A few snapshots from November. Some friends came for two nights and spent a day with us. We didn't have electric and it was very warm but I had told them maybe we could make cut out cookies (so thankful for a gas stove and that electric outages don't affect our water supply). So we made Christmas cookies while we sweated! January 8th and 9th we have missionary retreat. We are having it at a new location so Kenny and I have spent a bit of time figuring that all out. We found a retreat center that is very central to our mission so hopefully it works well! You can pray that it can be a refreshing, meaningful retreat. We will have topics, discussions with the board members, and times of sharing and games. Three times a week Ernestina comes and does our washing. She is such a blessing to us and does mountains of laundry when we are hosting and also just because we have boys in this house! Several weeks ago her 12 year...