Going Back To Ghana!

Children of Bedaase

 

Well, the tickets have been bought.  Andover will be heading back to Ghana in a little over a month!  A few quick details to get the ball rolling on the blog updates...more to follow...

Back in October we posted an update with Details on the April 2013 Trip.  A few things have changed but we are generally following the plan and schedule laid out in that post.  This time around there will be two teams heading to Ghana.  The first team will be assisting the local church to construct a pavilion like structure to be used for worship in the village of Bedaasse.  The second team will be working to assist the local church in the area of discipleship.  We also plan to conduct another vision clinic in the village during our stay.  If there is need and time permits we may assist in other areas as well.

The first team (the build team) will be leaving on Sunday April 7 and will arrive in Ghana on the following day.  The second team (the discipleship team) will be leaving on Wednesday April 10 and will arrive in Ghana the following day.  There will be a built-in period of overlap where both teams will be in country at the same time in order to worship together in the new structure on Sunday April 17.  The build team will fly home on Tuesday April 19 while the discipleship team will remain until Friday April 22.

In the meantime the two combined teams have started meeting as a group once a week to prepare for the trip and get to know one another a little better.  We'd really appreciate your thoughts and prayers over the coming weeks.  Please pray for us as a team, for the trip as a whole, and for the people of Ghana we are going to serve and work alongside.  Your prayers are greatly needed and appreciated.

Be on the lookout for more posts in the coming days and weeks as we gear up for the journey.  As before we hope this blog serves as a way for everyone back at home to "go on the trip" with us.  We'll be sharing our thoughts and concerns, needs and wants, and will post as often as we can about what is going on while in Ghana.  Until then, we remain "Knit together by love."

Jason