A year ago yesterday, I stepped out of the “International Arrivals” door to be greeted by loud screams welcoming me “home” to the U.S.
Other missionaries have agreed with me that once God has knit your heart to a specific foreign location, it's hard to call any one place on earth your home any longer. The beautiful aspect of this seeming rootlessness is that heaven becomes much more desirable: it is our true forever home!
Pastor Tirumbu and Mama Esther visited the U.S. in April: it was so good to see them again, and made me miss my Ghanaian friends that much more. Please pray for Mama Esther as she prepares for surgery in early July.
Over the next couple of weeks, I'll post some updates about what God continues to do in Ghana a year later; but in the meantime, I wanted to ask for prayers for a team of five young people from my “home church” who are spending ten weeks in Ghana this summer. Two weeks in, they have met with health struggles and other normal hardships (such as spotty internet and limited water), but they have also enjoyed numerous opportunities to serve Christians and non-Christians alike. A constant prayer request of theirs is that the seed of God's Word that they are sharing would find fertile soil in which to take root, so that their summer will leave behind an eternal impact.
May God be glorified in all that they think, say, and do!
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