As you're reading this, you're probably wondering why I'm going to Africa, when I'm going, what I'll be doing when I get there and how you can become a part of it (see "Next Steps"). I have decided to listen to my heart and go to Ghana, West Africa for six months. While in Ghana, I'll be working with Calvary Baptist Church, located in Adenta, a municipality of Accra, the Ghanaian capital. The CBC Adenta family has invited me to come to Ghana to work with their youth group "The Overcomers" in an effort to develop and practice personal evangelism, lead intensive Bible study, conduct visitation and serve in several community outreach programs that supply clean drinking water, food, clothing and safe living structures to the rural and outlying areas of Ghana. My time in Ghana will change my life forever! It's my personal hope that this mission to Ghana will be the cornerstone of a mutually rewarding friendship between Christians in the United States and those in Ghana. Going forward, working together, we can change the world!
When:
Leave for Ghana:
- September 23, 2009
Return to U.S.:
- March 25, 2010
Where:
Ghana, West Africa
- Accra - Capital
- Adenta
- Teiman
- Aburi
- Awukugua
- Other Surrounding Areas of Need
What:
"A Working Faith"
- Water - providing clean, safe drinking water
- Food - preparation and serving of meals
- Clothes - gathering and supplying gently used clothing
- Shelter - constructing safe living structures
- "The Overcomers: More than Conquerors" - work with the youth at CBC Adenta, leading Bible studies, visitation, community outreach, field trips, etc.
- Evangelism - seek to feed the hungry hearts of the lost, confused and broken with how God's love has changed my life
- Growth - help CBC Adenta start a new church
How:
Cost: $7, 000
- Vaccinations: $627 - Yellow Fever, Meningococcal, Polio, Typhoid, MMR (booster), TDAP (tetanus, diptheria, pertussis), Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B
- Anti-Malarial Medication: $1,800 (approx. after taxes)
- Flight: $1,393.30 (actual purchase price will be posted soon)
- Visa: $110 (does not include secure mailing costs)
- Host Family Assistance: food, lodging, transportation and additional costs: $3,000 (six months), $500/month, $125/week, just about $20/day
- If you want to partner with me and support my mission to Ghana, see "Next Steps"
Next Steps:
- Pray - that God will prepare my heart, mind and body for the work that awaits me in Ghana
- Pray - that I might be used by God through my work to help create an unbreakable bond of friendship between Christians in the United States and those in Ghana
- Pray - that I will boldly share God's love as I work out my living faith
- Pray - that people like you will message me and volunteer to form my personal prayer circle, a devoted, committted group of friends who can promise to pray for me each and every day without fail for the entire time I am in Ghana
- Pray - that God will provide me with emotional strength, spiritual courage and a humble and content heart so that I can be as "one beggar showing another beggar where to find bread"
- Follow me - subscribe to my blog and share my adventures with your family, friends and church. Click on the "Follow" button at the top right. You'll be the first to know when there are new posts to the blog!
- Become a Partner - you can make a one time, weekly or monthly gift to support my mission in Ghana
- All donations should be made out to:
- Concord Baptist Church
- "Ghana Mission"
- 6905 Concord Road
- Cumming, GA 30028
- Ph.- (770) 888-9454
- Donations are tax deductible
- Donations of any amount are welcome
- Please clearly mark all donations for "Ghana"
I look forward to sharing more with you as the days grow short and the date of my departure draws near! Look for a "Ghana at a Glance" blog to be posted soon with some interesting facts I want you to know!
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