We have a new NOTE!

OK... We haven't posted anything since we got here! I finally got some downtime today to write about what we've been doing and I've scattered some prayer requests throughout if you'd like to take a gander. 

We left VA on Friday June 1st and arrived in Heathrow the next morning… the airport was super confusing, and the coffee was really expensive, but I made a friend on the plane that help us find the way to our terminal. We arrived in Accra really late on Saturday night.

Day 1 in Ghana (June 3rd): I woke up to the sound of roosters crowing, cars honking, dogs barking, and people talking really loudly outside my window… weirdest combination of sounds ever. We left from Accra to Tamale, then Tamale to Navrongo, dodging goats, donkeys, people, carts and motorbikes all along the way. We arrived safely on June 4^th. A lot has happened since we got here, but I’ll just start with more recent stuff….

Yesterday we went to with Pastor Stephen to Naga, which is a village outside of Navrongo. Naga is a really large community of people, but they are really limited in resources (water, food, medicine, finances, transportation etc.). Pastor Stephen was mapping out the building for the new church they are building there (the church is growing and is now too big for the building they have).  While we were there, we went to visit the boy who was healed after the 2011 team came and prayed for him. We talked to the family for a little while. They told us that the boy is able to walk but not well and his bike broke, so he can’t get around very easily anymore. We are praying for complete healing and for encouragement for these people… it is a very hard life.  

We also met the lady with the leprosy that the team prayed and sang for last year. She remembers the whole team (they say she talks about the team a lot!). We prayed for her, and she told us to send the team her greetings. So “hello” to Impact Ghana 2011 Team from the lady in Naga! Please pray that she would stay strong in her faith. It is so humbling to meet and speak to these people who are in these hard situations, and it’s really hard to find words to say to encourage them and help them. So we are praying for God’s power and that He would speak through us and that we wouldn’t get in the way of what He wants to do with this trip in Ghana.

Naga is also having problems with snakebites... they have so many cases, but they don't have a car to get them to Navrongo or the medicine they need to treat the bites. So we went with Pastor Stephen to talk to the chief of Naga to do some “negotiations”, which was really cool.

Today we went witnessing door-to-door in Navrongo. It was really awesome, but definitely out of my comfort zone. Everyone (accept one family) said that they were Christians. If they're Christians, you're supposed to give them some word of encouragement, but I didn't really know what to say. So... it was kind of difficult the first two times, but I think I kind of got it. I know God's grace will cover what I did and didn't say, so that no matter what, they will find some encouragement. If you would, please pray for the family that we shared the gospel with and that they would pray to receive Him. They said they wanted to, but they didn't pray while we were with them. 

Next week we start the Crusades, which go from Monday through Friday, day and night... It will be a really hard week. But as Pastor said (and Jesus heh) "no rest for the son of man". Please pray for wisdom, endurance, protection from the enemy (both physical and spiritual), and that we would be walking in the Spirit, not in the flesh. We will also be staying Naga for one night, which will also be interesting... I'll let you know how it goes.