This week we had an experience we have never had before. We traveled to Abuja, Nigeria for the Mission Leader Seminar held by the Area Presidency holds twice a year. Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria and has been since December 1991 when it was moved from Lagos in an effort to spur economic … Continue reading Abuja, Nigeria

Last week was our long week away from Kumasi. We traveled to Sunyani on Tuesday, had the Sunyani/Techiman zone conference on Wednesday, arose early on Thursday and drove to Techiman for interviews and then drove on to Tamale. On Friday we had zone conference, and then stayed the weekend for the Tamale District conference. All … Continue reading Radach Revisted

While this past week was busy with zone conferences and interviews, I can't help but title a post after the name of the local golf course which in only about 2 miles from the mission home. After being here for over 27 months, I finally decided to go and play a round of golf Monday … Continue reading Royal Golf Club

This past week I spent more time with Excel trying to figure out our working fund spreadsheet than any time since I retired from Shell. This thing is a monster. Over twenty worksheets, each with detailed reporting about the costs incurred across the mission. Over time it has been changed here and there so that … Continue reading Spreadsheets

The title of this week's post comes from the last two weekly letters I have sent to the missionaries. These letters are based off of Paul's letter to the saints in Corinth found in 1 Corinthians 1-12. Copies of the letters sent to the missionaries can be found here (Part I) and here (Part II). … Continue reading Unity

This past weekend we held the Obuasi District Conference. We had a record turnout for the conference as 481 attended the general session on Sunday. We had 160 attend the adult session which we held on Sunday after the general session instead of Saturday. Because so many have to travel so far, we tried putting … Continue reading Repentance

This week we drove to the North for the Zone Conferences in Sunyani and Tamale and for interviews in Sunyani, Techiman, and Tamale. The format was the same as last week (you can see the format and the lessons taught by going to last week's post titled "Ayanfuri". The title of the blog post this … Continue reading Experiencing God’s Love

(This post covers the week of August 28th - September 3rd) On Sunday, September 3rd, the Ayanfuri group was officially formed and established. We had received approval from the Area Presidency to create the Group to be attached to the Dunkwa 1st Branch. Our plans were to get approval from the headmistress of the school … Continue reading Ayanfuri

This week we were very happy to receive in Elder Wayne and Sister Marianne Samuelson who joined us on Thursday for what is another one of many firsts for the Ghana Kumasi Mission. The Samuelson's have been called as Human Rights Education Missionaries, although in their role of teaching teachers how to teach Human Rights, … Continue reading Human Rights Education