Saturday, August 27, 2011

Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Bonjour, This morning, Joe, Brother Davis, and Brother Barrow went to the funeral for Evans' sister.  Evans is a faithful man in the church who is working on…

Missions With the Consfords

Ghana Field Journal — Serving the Lord for Over 25 Years

These daily journal entries document the Consfords’ missionary life across Ivory Coast and Ghana. Over 1,630 entries capture the church planting, the hard days, the answered prayers, and the everyday reality of following God wherever He leads. Browse the full archive or join the Consfords as a prayer partner.

Bonjour,

This morning, Joe, Brother Davis, and Brother Barrow went to the funeral for Evans' sister.  Evans is a faithful man in the church who is working on starting a church in Inchaban, a nearby town.  Evans' family is unsaved.  The funeral was at the Catholic church.  It was rather wild and lasted for almost three hours.
Kristine made all the meals and did all of the dishes today as a birthday present.  Since my birthday is on Sunday, she wanted to do that today.  But, she has the meals planned for tomorrow too.  Joe said that I should be glad Kristine is here because he definitely would not have done all of that.  : )  
I mopped the floors this morning to clean up from the flour spill yesterday.  I also did some laundry.
After lunch, Joe and the men went into town for a little while.  The Bible club kids came in the rain today.  They were here at 1:00 instead of 4:00, but we went ahead and had it at 1:00 since they were all here.  Then, the kids and I took a nap.  
Kristine made a delicious birthday supper. Just as we were getting ready to have cake, the power went off.  When Joe called the power company, they said that it would come back on for some people, but that it would remain off for others for "load shedding."  (They did load shedding when we were here about five years ago.  The power would be off for twelve hours and then on for twenty-four hours.  It started on my birthday when they did it five years ago.)  Thankfully, the power came back on about five minutes later.
We had cake and ice cream and then opened presents.  Joe and the men visited for a while.  I helped the kids with baths.  
A demain,
Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie

Joe Consford

Baptist Missionary — Ghana, West Africa

Joe and Laura Consford are independent Baptist missionaries sent from Central Baptist Church in Center, Texas. They plant churches, train national pastors, and run a Bible institute in West Africa. Joe is also the author of That's My Goat and Missionary on Fire, and the host of two podcasts.

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