Winding Down and Running out of Clean Clothes

Dear Friends,

This is Pastor Kristina writing what may be our last blog entry in Ghana. Josh may write one when he gets home though, so you may want to check next week!

We are delighted to report that Pastor Marion, Josh, Allie, and Joseph have returned to the Homestead from Tamale with good reports on relationships built and hopes renewed. We'll have to wait for Josh's entry to tell us more about it. Allie is back to her old self! Josh is tired this evening and hitting the sack. Seems like sixteen hours of travel up and sixteen hours back has tuckered him out!

Much work was done today digging trenches for the footings of the next school building! The next school building folks! What wonderful progress! Now there is room for the first six grades following the two years of kindergarten. When this next building is completed there will be room for the next three grades. At this time, the older children travel down the road to another village (on foot of course) to go to Junior High School. The only way that any child can go to High School is if they test high enough and then can afford to pay for it. We are so blessed in the US. Something we take for granted is out of the reach of almost every child in Awombrew and most places in Ghana.

Good news! The 17 children who wrote to penpals have 17 penpals who wrote back! We look forward to sharing these letters with our children. We have taken their pictures so that you can see who you are writing to. They are very interested in you all! I did my best to say a little more about each child. Very exciting!

More good news! I believe Jay said that 13 pens were turned today. What a miracle! What a wonder! The carpenters are working very hard to learn this trade. Jay is pleased as are we all.

Today the DEC (District Executive) (politian) came out to the village and was impressed with the work there. This sounds like an ordinary thing, but was actually the result of some intensive work done by Jay and the new chief early this week. He has agreed to commit $1300--the amount necessary to put electric poles up from the road and wire it to the storage facility-adult study facility. God is blessing our efforts!

Tomorrow we will finish our time in the village by breaking new ground: a Health Clinic--the very first one in Awombrew made possible by all of the medicines donated byHeidi's company. We'll look forward to bringing that story home with us.

In the meantime, keep your prayers coming! You sustain us daily! God is good! (All the time!) All the time! (God is good!)

Blessings on the journey,

PK