Saturday, January 30, 2010

Report from Africa

tomorrow, in church, i will be giving a report from Africa, more specifically, from Ghana, where I spend 16 of a 19 day missions trip. (if you want to know where the other days went, speak to me later, but it involves snow, london and airplane de-icers)
Where should I begin? I am honestly not sure, but I'll give it a try here. This was my second trip to Ghana, the first one was a vision tour back in 2007. the purpose of this trip was to teach and train pastors in the Northern Part of Ghana with the basic requirements for ministreal licencing. I, along with Rev. Bill Lea, taught the New Testament, and Revs. Denn Guptill and AJ Plaizier taught Basic Beleifs.
The teaching aspect was very cool. While I dont consider myself a teacher, I have studied-- and am studying the Bible-- and what better way to learn than by teaching-- So we went and taught. For 6 days, (I think) we taugh, answered questions and learned a little bit of what some of these minsiters live like.
After a much needed day off at Mole National Park, where we saw- among other thigns-- ELEPHANTS!!!! We began travelling to churches and baptizing people. (we also served communion to one church people) All in all our team baptized 87 beleivers. That was cool!!!!
I beleive that God is working in the churches of Ghana, and it was very cool for me to be able to experience it first hand. I loved my time in Ghana, and, as I did last time, am praying about a return trip. I would love to take my wife to experience life in Ghana with me. (the kids too, but then the price would get out of hand!!!)
I think much was accomplished in Ghana, and I hope and pray that God will bless the ministers who came to the course, and He will use what was taught to help people in thier walk with Jesus.
I'd love to share more about my time in Ghana, if you are interested in knowing more, just let me know.

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