Author Archives: Ash Zook

Amazing day in Moseaso.  The folks our coaches have been investing in this year are transforming their community as they are building friendships with drug addicts, alcoholics, personal enemies and traditional fetish priests (voodoo stuff which actually originated in Ghana’s Volta region).  We met with a lot of people and witnesses many lives changed by Jesus. Continue reading “21 – September, Moseaso”

Its been brutal getting to the computer with a good enough connection and enough time to post news of my trip with Mike Moye to Ghana.  In short, we’ve had an incredible time of ministry and community.  Mike is going to post an update tomorrow (as long as technology cooperates), so you can hear fromContinue reading “Finally! I can post my “travel news””

This week, Vincent, Kojo, Jonah and Pastor Brown have traveled to a town called Dambai up on the other side of Lake Volta.  Dambai has been waiting two years for a YLI conference in their little town, which is isolated and poor, with very little infrastructure.   YLI conferences usually begin and end with wild games ofContinue reading “Coaches Leave for YLI Training in Dambai”

In the US, it is hard to understand how different relationship evangelism is in countries where poverty is the normal every day reality. At times when I have explained to people that we focus on “practical acts of love” toward the lost in Africa, the question has been, “So, is YLI a social needs ministry or a spiritualContinue reading “Great Read! The Hole in Our Gospel”

Kojo Darko was abandoned by his family when he was 14 so he lived in the streets where his only acceptance was with criminal and drug gangs. He told me that he slept in open market stalls and rarely bathed, which resulted in people despising and avoiding him. But a local pastor reached out inContinue reading “Going Deep: Kojo Darko”

Some viewing tips: 1. Click the play button 2. Click the little button with the four arrows on the bottom 3. When it launches into full screen, click the “Scaling is Off” button so the video enlarges.

 I uploaded to Flickr a few photos of the key folks we are training in Ghana.   They were taken at our house in Kumasi the last day of the coaches summit this month.  Most group photos I’ve taken in the past have seemed just a little too formal and boring so I told them to lighten up and have someContinue reading “Some pictures of the coaches”

  This afternoon at lunch I found myself craving dried fish with my Fufu.  On my first eight or so visits to West Africa the sight or smell of dried fish immediately turned my stomach.  I even avoided walking past them laid out on the ground at the market.  But in September, Churcher dared me toContinue reading “I think this is a good thing.”

I uploaded this separately from my earlier post so I didn’t lose one or both of the entries.  Its a short greeting but man did it take a long time to upload!  I almost am starting to appreciate Comcast!

Our coaches summit finished up today and most of the coaches and trainees have started returning to their homes on hot and dusty afternoon buses. Its humbling to think that some of them travel by bus for almost the same length of time that I travel by plane to be with them. I am noticingContinue reading “The daily update”