by Connie Frisbee Houde
We have now all arrived to Tema and had our first dinner as an entire team plus Carrie Brown catching up with our busy days. I can't believe that some of us have only been here for two days. We have done everything from dancing together in worship, singing, and more dancing and singing. The energy in worship is something one must experience. Francis preached at Mama Alice's church.
Diane and Martina gave a dementia workshop this morning at Mama Alice's church.Nick and a small group bought wood and worked out the designs for the picnic tables that will be built tomorrow as an example for their carpenters to build others.
We dedicated two handicap ramps one donated with a gift from Michael Wolf who came the last visit and the other with a donation from Westminster.
For many of us the real treat of the day was to be received and entertained by the children at a school supported by Mama Alice's church for children who were not attending school because it was too far away for the children to safely walk. They danced while some of the parents sang and drummed.
The gave us their names and said what they prayed for and then preformed a short play about the contrast between two villages one where the chief gave the children what they ned to go to school and a village where the children had to work and could not go to school and when they did go they always were late. We planted trees in this village in front of what they hope to be a new school because they are out growing where they are. We are told that in 4 years these trees will be significantly larger.
Mama Alice, Lois and the chief with the help of one of the school children planted the first tree.
Nick planted one of the trees that were planted in front of the foundation for their new school which needs funding to be completed.
I have made a selection from the 1288 photos I have taken in two days including some of our team and some of the beautiful people we are meeting.
We have now all arrived to Tema and had our first dinner as an entire team plus Carrie Brown catching up with our busy days. I can't believe that some of us have only been here for two days. We have done everything from dancing together in worship, singing, and more dancing and singing. The energy in worship is something one must experience. Francis preached at Mama Alice's church.
Diane and Martina gave a dementia workshop this morning at Mama Alice's church.Nick and a small group bought wood and worked out the designs for the picnic tables that will be built tomorrow as an example for their carpenters to build others.
We dedicated two handicap ramps one donated with a gift from Michael Wolf who came the last visit and the other with a donation from Westminster.
For many of us the real treat of the day was to be received and entertained by the children at a school supported by Mama Alice's church for children who were not attending school because it was too far away for the children to safely walk. They danced while some of the parents sang and drummed.
The gave us their names and said what they prayed for and then preformed a short play about the contrast between two villages one where the chief gave the children what they ned to go to school and a village where the children had to work and could not go to school and when they did go they always were late. We planted trees in this village in front of what they hope to be a new school because they are out growing where they are. We are told that in 4 years these trees will be significantly larger.
Mama Alice, Lois and the chief with the help of one of the school children planted the first tree.
Nick planted one of the trees that were planted in front of the foundation for their new school which needs funding to be completed.
I have made a selection from the 1288 photos I have taken in two days including some of our team and some of the beautiful people we are meeting.