Author Archives: Ash Zook

While studying for an exam this afternoon I came across this quote from the late Professor Kwame Bediako, founder of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture (where I am currently studying).  It stirred something in me, so I decided to take a quick break and share it.  I hope it stirs you as well. ‘TheContinue reading “Patrick of Ireland, Kwame Bediako, & Jonah of Saboba”

It really shouldn’t come as a surprise that it took our family almost seven months to settle into Ghana and begin to feel comfortable in these new surroundings.   But it did.  Perhaps because Carrie and I have each spent significant time in West Africa, and because we have fond memories of our four-month visit toContinue reading “Family Update (a bit overdue)”

YLI’s discipleship training doesn’t all happen in conferences.  It happens out where the people are.  YLI trained leaders have helped bring clean water to villages in northern Ghana over the past four years. These villages have in turn extended generosity and the message of the gospel to surrounding groups of people.  One such group isContinue reading “Getting to know the Fulani people”

Includes photos of the Zook family and of Ash’s travels throughout Ghana with young leaders.

From the blog of YLI Ghana guest How Love Went Viral in Kpenchila “Before all this,” the elder said, waving his weathered hands to indicate the tin-roofed shelter, the makeshift school, the large brick reservoir, “We did not even consider ourselves human beings. Now, we consider ourselves to be human beings.” The people beneath theContinue reading “When Love Goes Viral”

Naomi Awuni, one of our coaches, told me during my recent visit to Ghana that a chief named Nana Kofi Yeboah (whom I met a couple of times, most recently in November of last year) had recently died…

Have you known someone in a long-distance relationship? Or, have you seen a couple at a restaurant on their smart phones instead of interacting with each other?…

The young disciple Yakubu’s body was returned to his hometown of Pulima after he’d crashed in a ditch and been thrown from his motorbike. Yakubu was the only known Christian in the Muslim town of Pulima, in Ghana’s upper-west region, with a population of around a thousand people.,,