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Leah's Journal
ACCRA GHANA WEST AFRICA 2013
I just
wanted to give you a glimpse of my trip to Ghana West Africa this year. We finally got to Atlanta & then they
sent us to Amsterdam & on to Accra.
We left
Saturday morning at 6:00 for a 3 hr. drive to
Frankadua . If you remember this
is the girl’s home for the Trokosi girls, (sex slaves to the Voodoo
priest). These girls, there were 45 present, do not
know when they were born so have never had a birthday. We
decorated the room with streamers & balloons, put up 3 long tables where
the girls would decorate their own cup cake with icing, decorations &
sprinkles that we took, they had a ball. We took a karaoke machine, which we left with
them, & played music. [Several of the ladies] taught them songs
& dances. They had a ball. Then using $1.00 bills we crinkled them up and stomped them on the floor,
picked them up & straightened them back out & told the girls no matter
what we did to them they were still a dollar bill & still had the worth of
a dollar bill. We closed with Bible verses & prayer by Reverend Grace who is a
wonderful Christian lady who strengthens the girls each day in the Lord. Oh my what a day of joy for us all. Pictures & saying goodbye were very hard
but we had a 3 hour drive back to Accra for another day of missions. Sunday
Sunday morning we went to church for 5 hours.
All 14 of us spoke & taught a Sunday school group with a
translator. They really worship with
song & dance pouring out their hearts to the Lord. We went back to the Guest House for lunch
before heading out to Karbokasi where we would feed 1,000 children chicken
& rice & hand out mosquito nets.
They had 1,010 boxed up meals & ran out of food. The children were told
stories & played games with balls we had taken & had a blessed
evening.
The next day was a
medical mission in Noka where last year the well the Urschels donated was put
in & Kairos helped build a brand new Clinic that is state of the art for
that part of the world. Of course Noka
is about 2 ½ hour drive & when we arrived there were a few people waiting
on to see the doctor and the missionaries, but
when the village saw us, they came running, probably 200 people. The Urschels' well was
routed so it could serve the clinic & then go into storage tanks with
spouts for the villagers to get their water.
The clinic has one large gathering room with 2 hospital beds, 3 other
private rooms & a running water bathroom & marble floors with a large
covered veranda in the front. WOW. We served here for 2 days & saw over 200
people. We had doctor, nurses, and
pharmacist. Eye glasses & prayer for each person. I was on the prayer team. Everyone that we checked in had or previously
had malaria. Children with ringworm,
worms, sickle cell anemia, malaria & so many with very high fevers up to 105. One man had lost 2 toes from
gangrene, and the doctor said he
would die. Many had very high blood pressure & heart
problems. We leave them medicine with
the sun representing morning & the moon representing night, printed on the outside of the package
so they can tell when to take the meds.
Wednesday morning Pastor Odai arrived at 6:30 to drive us to join the others at Ayibontey where Paula Marshall donated the money to build a school with 210 children in attendance. 95% of the village & those around are illiterate. This is changing a whole generation to be
schooled. The children were lined up
outside like military, saying yes sir as the teacher gave them directions as
they repeated bible verses, sang & danced for us. One lady from our group had taken red clown noses which she gave
to the children along with candy, and they were elated, such a gift. We gave them balls & Dr. David treated
almost every head that had ringworm. We
always deworm every child we see by putting a worm pill inside a tootsie
roll. We then went to
the village to hand out nets & to the convention, a tent meeting to hand
out study bibles to pastors
From Ayibontey we drove about 3 hours to Afroh Ajai to dedicate the water
well donated by Danny & Jolene Urschel in memory of Greg Urschel, my sister
Nancy Wilson, and several other donors. When we arrived at the village along dirt
roads for miles the villagers met us to show us their village & the
horrible water hole they had been getting their water from. Then we returned to the area where the well
was. It was concrete about 6’ X 6’ with
the well in the middle surrounded by ribbons & balloons. The priest
spoke & thanked us for the well that would give them the gift of life. The well & granite stone were covered
with lace table cloths. Matilda a young
woman in Ceremonial African dress danced around the well & then a young
girl dressed as well brought scissors to me to cut the ribbon, then they
removed the pin that kept the well from
working & had me pump the well to bring the delicious water & take the
first drink. I CANNOT TELL YOU THE
GRATITUDE IN MY HEART FOR THIS WATER, & to think my sister’s name along
with the others would be in the middle of the jungle forever as this fresh
water would be for all who came to this wonderful place. When the ceremony was over I was literally
drained from all the joy I had experienced.
THANK YOU URSCHEL’S FOR THIS GIFT OF LIFE.
The second well was
about 2 hours away at Akwakoubom. This
well was in honor of 11 year olds at Jenks School in Tulsa who sold "Fight
the bite" T-shirts to raise money to send nets to Africa. They ended up selling enough to net 10 villages. This endeavor was started by my friend's
11- year-old daughter. This was
covered by the Tulsa Newspaper & also Bishop Odai was in town & spoke
to the school children, thanking them for their hard work, which made it really
special. When we arrived the villagers had been
waiting about 3 hours, the chief and an area representative spoke. I know the chief was Christian but I believe
some of the village was voodoo. Then Julie had
the honor of opening this well as the villagers gathered around and
danced. They gave us a gift of a goat,
red palm oil beans, pineapple, plantains, tomatoes & grain. We handed out nets & one of our
girls had one net left & saw an old lady way in the back & made
her way through the crowd & gave the net to the little old lady who cried
& thanked her. We tied the goat in
the truck & loaded up for a long trip after dark to the guest house once
again. When we got back we were up until 2:00 a.m. Thursday morning packing 28 bags
for the next day, counting bracelets so the beaders could be paid.
Thursday morning we went to TK’s
so our first timers could see how the beads are made from recycled crushed bottles
put in the molds & fired in ovens made from termite hill dirt. The men sit in 100 degree temperatures
putting paddles of beads in & out of the furnace all day long. We were able to by beads for ourselves &
bought some more for Kairos bracelets. From TK’s we went to the city market to shop for ourselves &
family. We
left for the Accra airport at 3:00 P.M. as our flight left at 10:30 P.M. It took us 4 hours to get to the gate &
we boarded our plane to New York. From
New York we flew to Atlanta where we sat on the runway 3 hours before taking
off for HOME, TULSA & FAMILY. WHAT A BLESSED TRIP.
