Day 48 Week 7

(February 25, 2009)

Wow wow wow! Today was a very long day for we traveled a long distances and found ourselves to be at the end of the world (if there is one we were there). The last couple of days my parents and I were with Pastor Kingsely in a village near the Togo boarder. This community is run by very young men both as the chief and as the elders of the church. I am looking forward to coming back and working, encouraging, and growing with these young men. We “officially” “unofficially” went into to Togo as well. If we officially would have gone in then we would not have been able to get back into Ghana, and that would be bad. How does one get around this, I am glad you asked… With a little pay off and the Ghana immigrations holding on to your passports, so we went into to the country, but our passports did not. TIA (This Is Africa). As a future pastor, this would seem a little controversial if one really stopped and thought about it, but in an unfortunate culture that “Pay off” was like paying taxes or a security. All in all our stay with Pastor Kingsley was very good one and has excited me for when I return to work with them in May.

For today’s little adventure, we traveled form Pastor Kingsley, which is located in the Far East and about ¾ of the way up in Ghana. The town we left form is called Tatale. We traveled from there all the way to the near northern boarder of Ghana and about 2/3 over to the west. We traveled over to Yezesi to visit Pastor John. This will be the location on the field in my stay here in Ghana. Let me tell you this is in the middle of nowhere!!!! It is the hottest place I have every been and the sweat would evaporate before even hitting the ground! Our visit was short, but again I look forward to the new experiences come June. I also have developed a list of things that I will be eating in the northern region as well: Grass cutter (a type of rodent), Rat (a true rodent), snake (Poisonous), and dog (but not like my own dog). Just for clarification, this is not by force and it is not as common as one would think to eat these things. This is truly me wanting to go all the way with this trip. Most people do not even eat these things to be honest. As far my ministry has been concerned this trip has been more of a preparation for my last final leg, so in a very good way it has instilled in me a little different passion of my hopes for each location when the time comes.