Wednesday update from David: *Double-click on pictures to enlarge them! We went early in the morning to a morning assembly of a public school to share the gospel. Tyler and Thomas spoke and then David wrapped up. Thomas shared his testimony of how he was found by Christ and Tyler shared the "wordless book" description of the gospel message with senior high school students. We have been able to distribute hundreds of "wordless book" bracelets
Read moreTuesday was a rest day! The team went to see the crocodile’s in Paaga. Always an adventure! Today (Wednesday) will be a full day for the team. Please pray for their strength and continued wisdom as they look to possibly adjust the original plan for Thursday/Friday. (They will travel back home Friday and be back in VA Saturday morning.) And some additional details and photos from Sunday and Monday: Sunday was a busy
Read moreMonday: The team visited Bible Church Academy in Navrongo, Tampola church (visiting Pastor Clement and the Bread Winners school), and Bonia Church (meeting with Pastor John). Tyler sharing the wordless book at Bible Church Academy! And the BCA younger class (David and Breana taught at this school for six weeks back in 2011). Brought the three-legged race to BCA — they loved it!! This is Augustine - he was good friends with Will, John and Timothy
Read moreSunday: a high-level overview of the day! (If you double click on pictures, they should get a lot bigger.) The team split up today to attend and speak at churches in Murigu, Doba, Naga, and Navrongo. In Murigu, David said he preached on Psalm 84, "through the Valley of Bacca. Whose heart is the road to Zion. Really encouraging to me to be there." Photo #18 is a video, click below to watch: 18VIDEO Long
Read more10 & 11. We drove out to Kulogo Church today for the second leadership conference. 12 & 13. Patti shared some of her testimony to start the speaking portion. 14. Anita followed Patti by sharing her testimony also - very powerful set of testimonies from them both! 15. The guys shared the same message on leadership - this was a different audience. This church was even more remote. No roads - people walked in arriving
Read moreThe team got to Navrongo around 10:30 or 11pm Wednesday night. They're staying at the Aputara's home. Praise God, Thursday's conference went really well! David, Steve, and Randy divided up the three hours or so of speaking, and afterwords the team was able to meet and speak with several EMA pastors as potential leads for ministry support. Thursday they also spent time dividing up all the supplies our BRBC body sent with them — 8 suitcases full! Divided things out to
Read moreAll, here's update #1 from the team in-country (by way of Pastor David's wife Breana): Got a call from David earlier this evening! They had made it almost to Navrongo, Ghana (so, from Accra —> small flight to Tamale —> 4-hour car ride to Navrongo) after traveling for nearly 24 hours. He said they moved the Leadership conference to tomorrow instead of Friday (tomorrow is a holiday of some type so they expect a better
Read moreThe Team! Right to left: Thomas, David, Patti, Steve, Tyler, Randy, and Anita Praise God - we are fully funded, we have our detailed itinerary and we are firing on all cylinders to get things together before we leave. This is where we will be posting updates and asking for prayer. We greatly appreciate those who are partnered with us in prayer and financially - we haven't even left yet and we have seen God's
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