More Akwaba on the street! We are met by our brethren. Ernest, Edward and Ted Quansah, Owusu, Cobbinah, Isaac, Foster, and our driver, John welcomes us into the work! This was a grand reunion for me. Brothers I met and worked with 5 years ago are still in the race and as ready as ever to get to work for Christ and the church.
After a short drive through the masses of people selling their wares from the tops of their heads, we arrive at Ernest’s. Next it’s a trip to change U.S. dollars into Ghanaian Cedis. To change money we go to the market. This is a place not unlike a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark. We wind through a maze of stands selling anything and everything until we get to a “hole” in the wall approximately 4x4x8. This is a very sketchy scene. Ted says at this point, “Jump on anyone who goes for the money bag.” Money is changed in the thousands. We stuff the bag and go back through the maze to our van. Made it! The work will be financed.
Kukurantumi is our destination for the evening, a 7 hour drive. As I write, we are on “the road!” You know the one. That missionary road, if you can call it a road at all. It leads you from civilization into the bush. It’s bumpy, rough, and intense. But it takes you to the work. It takes you to those souls that not many will reach. We will reach them. We will teach them. God will add the increase. This time “the road” takes us to the mountains, to the home town of Paul Addo, an Elder in the Accra Rd. church.
My shower was cold and awesome. It’s a bit muggy, but not bad. It’s time for bed after a nice meal with the team.
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