Sunday

Today was a wonderful day.  We worshipped with our brothers and sisters at Shalom Baptist Church in Tarikpaa.  It was fun to bring new friends to meet old friends.  We especially enjoyed hearing the Shalom choir, who are well known in this area.  They have recorded a cassette and I hope to bring one home.

This afternoon was also wonderful, but very difficult.  First we enjoyed a delicious lunch of chicken and rice.  Then we visited the market for a few minutes where Karli and Kelli received some drumming lessons thanks to one of the Ghanaian vendors.  After that, we went to two orphan homes and that's when it became difficult.  One of the homes was a government home.  When we walked in, about 15 toddlers came running down to hall to greet us.  I think we had a pair of arms for every single child.  There were about half a dozen bed babies and they just cuddled up when we held them.  It was so hard to leave.  We visited another home after that which was privately run.  The children sang 2 beautiful songs.  Again, hard to leave. 

Right now we are in the home of Rev. Isaac Wuni and he was gracious enough to allow me to use his computer.  His sweet wife Grace served us cold bottled drinks.  They were so good!

Today the children also took a little adventure outside the guesthouse compound to get some Fan Ice, the local ice cream.  I'm pretty sure the boy on the vendor bicycyle will camp outside our guesthouse after today.

Everyone is happy and doing well.  This is such a great team.  I wish we could post pictures but the internet is very slow.  In fact, I don't even know if these posts are getting through.

Continue to pray for us.  We will be going into the villages tomorrow and also to visit World Vision.