We <3 Tema

So, we arrived in Ghana last Friday, and we are so excited to be here. For one fun feature look at the pictures below.

 

Yes, this is our motorcycle for scooting around Tema. And that is also the outside of our house. I'll post pictures of the inside later, probably after our trip into Francophone the next two weeks.

 How cool is he, right?














Yes, there is a container sitting out in from of our house. That is the warehousing for Ghana's OneHope books. Our house used to be the warehouse, but they were able to purchase a container so that they could set up the house as a guest-house/our home while we're here. The container will be moved to the church property soon. :)

Ready for a ride to the beach. So happy to be near the ocean again!

We Made it! It was a very nice ride.

  Hello Ghana shore! The cool breeze from the ocean is so lovely.

We  stopped for some Choco Fan Milk on the way back -it's kind of like a fudgesicle without the stick, you just eat it out of the corner of the bag- by that point we needed something cool and refreshing.

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Sooooo, yes, we are now in Ghana. About to head out on a trip to s few French West African countries with Jim, our fabulous Francophone Regional Director. Our main objectives on this trip are to connect with some of the national directors, find out how things are going, and to work on continued training in our recently revamped reporting system - making sure that they understand all of the changes in the system and feel fully competent as they report on inventory, distribution activity, and finances.

After this trip we'll be back in Ghana for about a month before moving over to East Africa, and we're really looking forward to that month, as well as the time we'll be back here during the second half of the year. We really like it here. It may be hot and sticky, but the house is very comfortable with ceiling fans, and our room has an A/C unit, so we sleep well at night. We are really quite spoiled actually for West Africa, and are very grateful for our A/C. And even grocery shopping is easier than we expected. We can get most everything we need from a couple of small local supermarkets, then if we want to get fresh fish or something we will find someone along the road selling it. But we are grateful for the supermarket, we thought we might have to haggle for all of our food, which many people do and it's probably much cheaper, but coming from a non-bartering society it is a relief that we won't have to do that for most things.

We're all set up with internet modems so we can be connected from home and do work from home when we want to, but we're also only about 3 minutes walk from the office, where Pastor Elorm (West Africa regional director) and the rest of the Ghana staff are working, and we can join them over there whenever we want/need to. Also, Ps. Elorm's church is very close, about 10 minutes on our motorbike. We joined the service and Sunday school this last Sunday. So we're very well situated, and we are feeling more at home than we have in Africa thus far.

So, if you think of us, please pray for our travel - safety, health, and affective time with the team. And also please pray for Bernard in South Africa as he is learning to take responsibility for the Southern Africa region, and for him personally as he is living in a new place far from his friends and family in Zambia, and especially far away from his fiance (I'm sure she could use some extra grace as well as she is missing him).

Thank you all!

Love,
-J&L