ARRIVAL

Destination: Kumasi
Distance: 270 Kilometers (what we use in Ghana) approximately 167 miles
Travel Time: 6 hours

Traveling the roads in Ghana is always an adventure; not really a fun one, but necessary to getting the Word out.  We were pleasantly surprised to see that some construction work which was unfinished a year and a half ago was now complete and getting out of the capital city of Accra was pretty quick and smooth!  Yay!!!
Hawkers selling snacks under the newly constructed overpass
The kids were pretty happy to not have to be in carseats.  Better hold on tight, though!  Bumps ahead!
 Then we hit the part where construction is STILL going on.  We tried to take pictures but you just can't FEEL all the jarring bumps when you look at a picture, so it really doesn't do justice to the actual state of the roads!
 This is the major highway between the two largest cities in Ghana!
We saw very few private vehicles.  It's car-suicide to drive your vehicle on this road!
Of course, if/when your car breaks down from all the bumping around, you can just pull over to one of these many "mechanics shops" and get it looked at by an "expert".  :)
Or you can just stay right where you broke down (in the middle of the road) and work on the repairs there.

And then when another truck breaks down right beside you all the other traffic will just find another way around you.
Once we got through the "construction" it was pretty nice cruising behind this "Land Cluiser" as his tire cover claimed. :)
Until we got to the part of the highway where there were speed bumps every few miles.  Yes, speed bumps on the major highway.  Maybe they want to be sure you slow down and see the signboards advertising Satanic Powers.  That was the most appalling sight of the whole trip - seeing several large signboards for juju (voodoo) places where you could go for special powers from a juju man.  Very sad!  That's why we need to be here and need to keep spreading the Good News of God's true power to overcome sin and Satan's grip!
We finally arrived HOME in Kumasi!  Praise God!


























Comments

Post a Comment

Donate

Followers

Popular posts from this blog

Adorable Dora

Image
Dora is the baby sister of three siblings in our Christian school. She has spent 5 months of her 6 months of life in the hospital after being born with a hole in her heart.   Two weeks ago, the team of American doctors came and assessed Dora but unfortunately, she had not recovered enough for them to attempt the surgery. Exactly a week later, I saw Dora. She looked so pathetic. She was nothing but skin and bones, weak as could be. Severely malnourished and anaemic and gasping for air. She was very irritated by the oxygen tubes going into her nose and struggled to no avail, without even a voice to cry. It was so bad I couldn't bring myself to take a picture as usual. I thought for sure she would die that day or the next. That day as I spent time visiting with the mother she began to open up and talk to me, asking WHY? Why her? Why was her son, Stephen, born with cerebral palsy and handicapped and now her daughter Dora has a hole in her heart? Her heart was hurting and heavy. She
Read more

Travels...and a New Home

Image
If you have been able to follow us on Facebook then you can see that we've have a very busy but very blessed spring/summer of travels.  We couldn't even keep up with posting pictures of everyone and everywhere we have visited, it has been so busy! We are very thankful for the wonderful, genuine hospitality and generosity shown to us and we are refreshed, motivated, and encouraged to return to Ghana (although a bit tired out physically from the toll on our bodies of traveling).  We are also excited to return and move into a NEW HOME!  Looking on an online site for rentals in Kumasi recently we found a four bedroom apartment for rent. It was right in the neighborhood we needed to be in and it was an incredible, almost unbelievably good price (even cheaper than our two bedroom used to be!).  So our dear parents in Ghana checked it out for us, sent us pictures, and a few weeks later we are now the new renters of this new home for our growing family to move into upon our return
Read more

Baby Steps

Image
It has been hard to figure out what to share of the events of the past two weeks.  It has been a tough time...but God is seeing us through.  We praise Him in all things and persevere; but it has been emotionally raw as we had "situations" and incidences to deal with concerning Matthew's mom and his well-being.  We can't help but be emotionally very invested in this sweet five year old after the course of his life has intertwined with ours for the last three years and we care about his mom, too.  She was not in a good state mentally and kept causing trouble at the school.  It came down to her removing all his clothing in the classroom and trying to walk him out of school completely naked.  *Gasp!*  Not good.  So we wouldn't let her do that and had to call in her brother and mother and took him home with us for a week while waiting for them to help with a solution.  We are thankful he could spend time with us and enjoy a carefree time until his mom seems to have sw
Read more