God Feeds the Birds

At church on Sunday the pastor preached on Matthew 6:25-34 and it seemed to really fit my life at that moment. The title of the sermon was “God Feeds the Birds.” All these things have happened all on top of each other lately. The storm that blew out the electricity that blew out the internet and blew out everything else along the way. I got sick and could not work. Then there was another storm and now we are without electricity again (we are on generator at the moment). However I just keep saying, “if God feeds the birds just think what he will do for me.”

Thank you for your prayers. I am getting better. I only ate small small from Monday to Saturday. By Friday my appetite was there but my stomach was not. I know malaria may seem like a huge ordeal but its really common here and very easy to treat. The worst part was at night. That’s when the stomach and head pains were the worst and also when the fever came.

Yesterday marked my three months in Ghana day. I can not believe this. We started our spring break this week. Two weeks with no school. For the next three days we are going to go swimming. We take the kids in groups so it should be fun.

Today I went in to Accra with Barbra on a sad note. She has a man that works for her, Pascal, and his house completely burned down last night. He has a wife, Stella, that is eight months pregnant, a daughter, Cherry, that is four and a sixteen year old stepson. I wish I could explain to you properly the area that he lives in but this should give you a clue: he lives in the most densely populated area of Ghana. The entire country! It is only by God’s grace that his entire district was not burned down. They only have the clothes that they were wearing last night while they slept. The entire compound sleeps outside except for during rainy season so they were saved because of that. Also, it rained last night before they went to sleep so everyone had taken down their laundry from the lines which is a God thing because if they had not that would have burned down a compound that houses about two thousand people. It was devastating just walking around his house. To know Pascal he is such a chipper man. Always laughing and cutting up but today he was all in tears. His wife cannot work because of her pregnancy so she will go out with their daughter and live in the village until the repairs are finished. Please pray for them. Their landlord is on them to pay for the repairs and expects Barbra to because she is white. The Lord has shown them mercy so much already so I know He will work things out and they have faith of that as well.

I know you are probably thinking since I have not been online for so long there must be a lot to write but really there is not. Life here has been good and uneventful except for the storms that bring the bugs. By the way... I hate termites!

Thank you for your faithfulness to pray for us here.

Watching the birds eat!

Sarah.

Praises:
-We got a new mother! She will not start until May first or so but she is coming. Her name is Mama Florence. God is great!