Glimpses of our Life in Ghana

    Every Sunday morning and one Wednesday evening a month you will find us gathered at Abbina Mennonite church.  We sit on a mixture of plastic chairs and wooden benches. And we ourselves are quite a mixture. Besides our mission families there are two to three native adults that attend regularly and then anywhere from 15 to 50 children, ages 2 to 18. This means that it is not a matter of training our own children to sit quietly during church, it also means training other peoples children to sit quietly. It can be quite a challenge and some Sundays are great and some, hardly anyone gets much out of the sermon. The children love to sing and lately we sing the song at the beginning of this post almost every Sunday. Sometimes when I sing a song over and over I forget about the words but the words in this song have started catching my attention. Especially when so much energy and passion is put into singing them! The swamp behind church. This picture is from rainy season, dur...

This is our favorite spot to buy eggs. One of Kenny's former students lives here with his "Auntie". The farm is at a different location and sometimes we stop there insead. No where else have I bought such nice eggs! Perfectly clean and they are very fresh with oranger yokes then most you buy around here. One Saturday we visited our missionary friends about an hour away. They have a farm that boys come and work at. He teaches them life lessons as well. It is very close to what Kenny does at the shop, just not teaching but helping them earn some money to get started in their lives. Their farm is on a hill and has a beautiful view! You can learn more about them at Fields Of Hope Ghana .org. We went to a beach close to their house. It was beautiful! Patricia baked a quiche and some meat pies one day when she was at my house. The meat pies are a common street food here, filled with a variety of things. These had chicken and vegetable. A work crew was here and we took the ladie...