Hey everyone!
It has been a long couple of weeks without school, internet, and constant electricity. No one has any idea what’s going on with the internet, even the internet people. And the early coming of the rainy season has caused the loss of electricity. We are on generator eight hours a day, four in the morning and four at night. It makes for some really hot afternoons and really hot sleeping but its all good. Because right now the problem is stretched to Nsawam hopefully it will be fixed soon. We’ve been out for four days now and then before that we were out for three days with a two day grace period in between. As Dr. Joy puts it “you don’t really know what a fan does until its not there.” I know it sounds like I’m complaining and maybe I am but it has not been too bad. It gives me a lot of time to read and I have fallen in love with Philip Yancey. (Thanks daddy!)
While I’ve been away we (like most of the rest of the world) had a holiday. Easter. I had not heard too much about Easter here so I did not think it was that big of deal. Silly me forgot that if there is something to celebrate Ghanaians do. The banks were closed for two days: Good Friday and Easter Monday. On Good Friday I went in with the Seatons to Calvary Baptist and had an amazing service there. On Sundays Calvary has three services: the first in Ga, Twi, and Ewe, the second in English, and the third in French and English. Well on Friday they combined them all into one service. I felt like the typical ignorant American only understanding the English. Everyone else was laughing and carrying on with every other language. Most Ghanaians speak AT LEAST four languages and then understand small of several others. It was a beautiful service full of singing and five amazing mini-sermons of which I only understood one. However beautiful that service might have been nothing could compare to the service we had on Easter Sunday. It was so good we ended up going forty-five minutes over but no one minded. There was more dancing in that Sanctuary than I have ever seen. Handkerchiefs waving in the air. Holy hands reaching to heaven. Pretty much a glimpse of heaven.
There are a lot of things I will miss about Ghana when I leave but I think that church will probably be close to number one if not the number one thing I miss the most. I know everyone worships different and I love worship in all types of ways. From a single guitar in an apartment church to a hundred voice choir in an mega church sanctuary to a small Baptist congregation with a heart of gold at 7200 feet to a dancing, foot stomping, amening church on the Golden Coast of West Africa. I love church and I really love church in Ghana.
Today we get a new mini-missionary. I do not know much about him except he has been traveling through the Rafiki villages since the beginning of January and is ending his journey with us in Ghana. By the time you read this he probably will be leaving so I will update you on him in the “p.s.” section at the bottom.
Dancing down the aisle for Jesus!
~Sarah
That was then... this is now.
I wrote that two days ago and since then we have gotten back power and a random source of internet. I'm liking it so far. The new guy, Paul, has actually been touring the world since October. He's been all over Asia and now in Africa and he's going and going until he gets to Antarctica. Cool, eh? Well, not too cool. He woke up really sick this morning, he will live but doesn't feel like it at the moment.
Teachers started back at school today. That was nice to be back. I'm excited for Monday when the kids get there. Get back in a routine at least.
Signing off again... hopefully this time not for good.
Sarah
Prayer Request:
-Paul, that he gets to feeling better
-That the electricity stays on and the internet
-School will start nicely. We've been on break for two weeks so this might take some time getting back in the swing of things.
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