December 11, 2008
Week in Review
December 11, 2008
Ghana Elections
The Ghana 2008 Presidential elections were held this past Sunday. I would love to report to you that the better party won, but they didn’t. Actually no one won yet. The ballots were all in by yesterday. (it took 3 full days for a final announcement, you can tell by the pictures the system is very high-tech) The electoral commission announced that there will be a run off. In Ghana you have to win the election by 50% plus 1 vote. The NPP (New Patriotic Party – the one we are routing for) received 49.13% and the NDC (National Democratic Congress – this party makes us nervous) got 47.92%. So as you can see it was a close race. There were 8 names on the ballot so for the run off there will only be 2 names. Please pray for God’s will to be done. From what we are “told” when the NDC was in power 8 years ago there was a lot of innocent blood shed. Josh Smith preached an awesome sermon Sunday Night entitled “Vote for Jesus!” I never saw a congregation so excited about the things of God. I would compare it to how the crowd reacts at First Baptist Church of Hammond during an amazing choir special during Pastors’ School. It was an exciting message about God being in control. Services were really low on Sunday morning. Brett and I were saying to each other that it was a record Sunday (but not in the happy direction). The revote will be on Sunday the 28th of December. So we are praying fervently for that! 
The Menyon Family
I though you would be interested in learning some of the testimonies of our Sunday School couples.
George and Irene Menyon were born and raised in Liberia. They had many hardships growing up in a hostile country. George lost the function in his right eye by being hit by a ricochet bullet while he was trying to get cover. Irene lost her sister and her brother in law in the war. The Menyon family luckily escaped and was sent by the U.N. to a refugee camp in Ghana. While at the refugee camp George heard about Hyles-Anderson College of West Africa and brought his wife and 3 of his 5 children with him. He is currently studying to be a preacher and wants to eventually go back to his home country of Liberia to start a church. He is the song director of our Sunday school class. It is impossible to relay to you the spirit this couple has. You would never know they have endured so many problems. Amen and Amen!
Health Update!
GOD IS SO GOOD! Pastor Mike Williams and his wife Brooke returned from America on Monday of this week. Pastor Mike is back to 100% and Brooke is just about there too! All of the tests came back fine and we are so glad to have them back. Mrs. Carter has also received good results from her heart tests so she is planning on coming back some time next week. As far as I know everyone is fully recovered from Malaria. Now our team is ALL healthy for the upcoming Christmas season! GOD IS GOOD – ALL THE TIME.
Saturday Soul winning.
Brett got to witness to a man who is the husband of a faithful lady from our tro-tro route who has 6 children. This man is never home because he works 7 days a week at the railroad yard. He just happened to be home this past Saturday. He gladly received the gospel. Amen and Amen. Brett also witnessed to another man who attended the Assembly of God church and a young boy that was with him. They also got saved. I had nursery again this Saturday. I am currently on the Nursery Schedule every other week – I would much rather be out soul winning, I have to often remind myself by staying in the nursery I am allowing multiple people to go out and witness.
