The Ghana Journals
Part 10//Hello from Africa
Thank you to all who have been
praying for me and Miah during our trip.
It’s hard to believe that we’ve already been here almost two weeks! Travel went very well and we made it here
without any serious complications or delays.
Our first few days here felt quite overwhelming, but we felt much better
once the effects of jet lag started to wear off.
During the week we spend most of
our time at Beacon House. There are
about twenty kids and teens at Beacon House, ranging in age from about 17 to
newborn. About half of the kids attend
local schools, and the other half are schooled at Beacon House. I know the hope is to be able to send more of
the kids to the local schools, but school fees are fairly high, and more
sponsors are needed for that to be possible.
Miah and I have both been helping teach, and we’ll be taking over the
preschool class in another week when the current teacher heads back to the US.
Weekends are full of free time,
which we’ve been using to catch up on laundry (which has to be washed by hand),
emails and picture editing, and opportunities to explore. We were going to get together with a friend
of mine who has been in Accra for the past week on a work trip with Compassion
International, but Miah was sick in bed all day Sunday. Thankfully, she’s feeling much better today!
We are living in an apartment a
few miles from Beacon House, and we are very thankful to have our own little
space to unwind at the end of each day.
A bunch of people from Miah’s circle of friends wrote her notes before
she left. She’s been opening one each evening, which has
been a great blessing!
We do not have internet at the
apartment. Sometimes we can connect to
the internet at Beacon House, but it’s not very reliable. The good news is that there is an
(air-conditioned!) internet café that is only a ten to fifteen minute walk from
Beacon House where we can connect to the internet for about a dollar an
hour. We would love to stay connected
with all of you back home, though it may take us a few days to be able to
respond to any emails we receive.
Our visit with Rachael, my
sponsor child, is coming up quickly. We
get to spend most of the day with her on November 20th, visiting her
school and home, going out to lunch, and getting to know her and her family
better. We are very excited to be able
to meet Rachael in person!
We would love continued prayer
for things like health, protection and wisdom, and we would especially love for
you to pray that this time would be used by God for His glory. It is our desire that our relationships with
Him would be deepened and strengthened, that He would be seen and made known in
and through us, that we would display His love and the joy of knowing Him, and
that we would follow Him with child-like faith and adoration.
I hope and pray that you all
have a blessed rest of your week, full of the grace and life of Christ.
~Leah
P.S. A post with pictures will be coming soon. :)
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