March

 

The beginning of March we joined the celebration of new life and the naming of Patricia's twins.

A yummy bowl of soup served by friends on a Saturday evening. A family memory we will treasure!

We enjoyed hosting Pastor Mark and Aunt Maggie one weekend. Everyone enjoyed getting to know them.

March is VBS month and we thoroughly enjoyed this group from Mountain View that came to help.

Waiting for registration and wrist bands.

Singing

Coloring

Kelsey and Kaitlyn took care of the children that were too young to join VBS. 

Main assembly

Marvin teaching the Bible story.

We took the crew to the beach for supper one evening. They grilled a huge fish for us! It was so good!

We ended our evening with a bonfire and singing on the beach. it was a beautiful evening!

They also brought us some treats. This combination was wonderful! My children that are not milk drinkers even enjoyed good American milk!

Hosting and going to VBS means more time spent with fellow missionaries. Our children enjoyed the extra hours spent with Lavern and Sherri's daughter India. Having a little person around is good for all of them! 

The end of March we were invited to an Easter play that a church does every year. Some friends children had part in it. It was very well done and we all enjoyed it.

The last supper.

And a beautiful sunrise from our house!

  March was a very busy month but now we have had time to catch our breath and prepare for the next wave. Next week our mission will have two groups of visitors and then May is when things really get busy. But we enjoy the seasons of quiet and business. We would get bored and lonely if we didn't have visitors and events. 

    Change is a constant thing in Ghana. Gary and Whitney Weiler are settling back into life in the US, but no one has been found to replace them here. Do you know of anyone with an interest in mechanics and vehicles? Someone that would enjoy working with people in a different culture? 

    School will be over in 4 weeks. We will all be glad for less of a schedule and more freedom, but the   children will miss their teacher. They have had so much fun together this school term. 

    In May we look forward to a new couple joining our mission team. Kerik and Adriana Zimmerman will be moving to Assomdwee to take over the palm press, and Joel and Marcie Burkholder will be leaving the beginning of June. You can pray especially for our children. India will be the only other child in our mission and especially the boys are not looking forward to not having playmates in our mission family. But we trust God knows our children's needs and will fill them in ways we can't imagine.

  Kenny continues spending a lot of time with whoever he meets and whoever asks for his time. It is amazing the amount of people that want, need a listening ear. Recently a man that has a business outside our village and also sells drugs, lost his young son. Kenny had spent an hour with him earlier that week discussing religion. This man worships ancestors among other things but life hasn't been easy and he is questioning things. Now with the loss of his little boy, he needs a caring ear more then ever. He isn't well liked in our community and he isn't receiving much sympathy. Will his heart soften and he seek the true God? Can we show him a Christ like love? One of our more recent projects was getting audio Bibles on micro SD cards. Although many people can read and write English, many of them can't. And even fewer can read and write their native dialect. Audio Bibles in their native language seemed like a good answer and it has been a joy to provide these for people. One house we walk past when walking to school or church will often have either the Bible or music from a flash drive we gave them playing. It is a glimmer of hope that maybe we can shine a little light.

  Sometimes the darkness feels overwhelming. The stories of abuse, neglect, immorality, and the list could go on. Over Christmas these verses became special to me, "In Him was life and the life was the Light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not." John 1:4-5 or verse 5 in the amplified "The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it (and is unreceptive to it.)" What a precious promise! The darkness will never destroy the Light!