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I just sent an email back to the US letting our supports know what is happening here right now. Thought some of you might like to read some exerpts from it:
Good Morning From Prampram!
And a good and beautiful morning it is! The sun is shining brightly, there is a gentle breeze so it isn't too hot, the ocean is gorgeous and the sky is clear. God is good and faithful. So this is almost like paradise! The only thing that is missing is all of you!
Let me try this email again. I had it almost completely composed when the electricity went off and I lost it all! My intentions were to get it to you in plenty of time before service this morning ... but ECG (Electric Company of Ghana) had other plans. And rather than fire up the generator for just an email, I waited till I had to do more things ... this way we can more effectively use our resources.
Thinking of the electric outage, it is making things difficult here in Ghana. Please keep this country and her people in your prayers. Right now they are on an electric rationing - 24hours on and 12 hours off. This makes it difficult for businesses to operate. It is like this because for the last several years it has not rained as it did in the past and the Volta lake - where the majority of elctricity for the country is produced, is very low.
This leads to water rationing as well, and the Government is predicting that it will only get worse until they can get new electric generators on line. Then, to make matters worse, just as fuel is going up in price in the US, it is doing so here. And there is a shortage of fuel, which will only get worse when the ONLY refinery in the country closes for 10 days for repairs the end of this month or the beginning of next month. Gas is already about $4 a gallon here (and the minimum wage is about $2 A DAY). Can you imagine having to work for 2 DAYS to buy 1 gallon of gasoline????
So with all these hardships to daily life, the people need something to turn to. That is where we come in. The Oasis International Training Centre is truly a port in the storm. A place where LEADERS come to be refreshed in the Lord. Then they can take this refreshing back to their people. In this manner we are reaching out to so many people!
Even now, with no classes scheduled so we can do some maintenance at the Training Centre, there are still ones coming to talk, for prayer, etc. And to hear the workers - their lives are so effecting the town and their churches. Mathias and Emmanuel are teaching classes in their churches. Harrison is preaching at different churches. These are men that we have trained, taught and spent time with. They came as masons and mason tenders and now they are taking the Word of God and spreading it to others!
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Good Morning From Prampram!
And a good and beautiful morning it is! The sun is shining brightly, there is a gentle breeze so it isn't too hot, the ocean is gorgeous and the sky is clear. God is good and faithful. So this is almost like paradise! The only thing that is missing is all of you!
Let me try this email again. I had it almost completely composed when the electricity went off and I lost it all! My intentions were to get it to you in plenty of time before service this morning ... but ECG (Electric Company of Ghana) had other plans. And rather than fire up the generator for just an email, I waited till I had to do more things ... this way we can more effectively use our resources.
Thinking of the electric outage, it is making things difficult here in Ghana. Please keep this country and her people in your prayers. Right now they are on an electric rationing - 24hours on and 12 hours off. This makes it difficult for businesses to operate. It is like this because for the last several years it has not rained as it did in the past and the Volta lake - where the majority of elctricity for the country is produced, is very low.
This leads to water rationing as well, and the Government is predicting that it will only get worse until they can get new electric generators on line. Then, to make matters worse, just as fuel is going up in price in the US, it is doing so here. And there is a shortage of fuel, which will only get worse when the ONLY refinery in the country closes for 10 days for repairs the end of this month or the beginning of next month. Gas is already about $4 a gallon here (and the minimum wage is about $2 A DAY). Can you imagine having to work for 2 DAYS to buy 1 gallon of gasoline????
So with all these hardships to daily life, the people need something to turn to. That is where we come in. The Oasis International Training Centre is truly a port in the storm. A place where LEADERS come to be refreshed in the Lord. Then they can take this refreshing back to their people. In this manner we are reaching out to so many people!
Even now, with no classes scheduled so we can do some maintenance at the Training Centre, there are still ones coming to talk, for prayer, etc. And to hear the workers - their lives are so effecting the town and their churches. Mathias and Emmanuel are teaching classes in their churches. Harrison is preaching at different churches. These are men that we have trained, taught and spent time with. They came as masons and mason tenders and now they are taking the Word of God and spreading it to others!
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Go Bisons!!!
