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Last Thursday (21st August) I traveled to Wa in the Upper West Region to visit Albert Jatoe for part of the onsite YLI training experience for Roland Martin (Liberia) and Eric Awinaba (Ghana).  Since the guys had our car so they could get around in Wa, I traveled from Kumasi on a public bus driven by aContinue reading “From Wa (Part 1)”

Rose has become a vital part of our daily life, helping with the cleaning and laundry, watching the children at times and teaching me to cook some wonderful Ghanaian dishes. Although her work day should end at 5:00, it is often 5:30 when she is finally ready to leave for the night. Worrying about herContinue reading “The shortest distance between two points…”

I’ve heard the requests for another update from Carrie and please know that she is working on one between everything else she has going on with our kids, other neighborhood kids, the house, shopping in the market, planning meals, me…., and also hosting Albert Jatoe, Eric Awinaaba and Roland Martin this weekend.  I think that theContinue reading “Carrie, Liberia, Jatoe, Drobo…”

I am learning that air travel is “air travel” regardless of the country, and that flying from Liberia to Ghana can be just as frustrating as a Friday afternoon flight trip from Laguardia to Atlanta!  Churcher and I left Kumasi early this morning for the 4 hour drive to Accra.  Roland was due to arriveContinue reading “Roland Martin has arrived in Ghana”

Here in Ghana, one of our challenges is gaining the trust of local pastors in towns where we train young people.  The suspicion is that YLI is coming to start a new church and “abduct” their best talent!  So, before each conference we make efforts to visit each pastor at least once to introduce YLI, and also to show proper cultural respect forContinue reading “An update on Liberia”

 Katie turned 4 yesterday and as you can see by the picture, Carrie did some baking Ghana style.  This picture was taken just after Katie leaned down and mischievously bit off a small chunk of the cake (you can see it if you look closely).  I would have gone for the colored icing if I wereContinue reading “Katie turns 4!”

From the trip to Western Region last week…It may take a few hours for all of these to process so if they don’t work at first, please visit again later. This first video is for Jim Moore (few people know he is a great lover of African singing and dancing).  The song leader’s dog decidedContinue reading “Essam Identification Summit Video Clips”

(the Pictures page – under “Learn More” to the right of this page ——-> has been updated) I am still working on getting some photos and video optimized for posting but wanted everyone to know that Jatoe, Churcher, Naomi, Tetteh and I had a great time with the youth of Essam at the Leadership IdentificationContinue reading “Back from Essam and Drobo”

Another posting from Carrie:   I had an English teacher in high school who used to say, “If it happens once, it is interesting, if it happens twice, it is a coincidence, if it happens three times it is a paper topic! (or, in this case, a blog entry).  Over the last week or soContinue reading “Naomi’s Zaccheus”