August 25, 2023 Today is the first day I woke up before nine o’clock. I still did not go to sleep until a little after midnight, but I am starting to get used to the change in time zones. We began the day by having a hearty breakfast of Biscuits and Gravy; and let me…

August 24, 2023 This is Gilbert. I’m going to take over the blogging to get into the habit of doing it daily. We started off the day getting up a little late, due to the jet lag we are still experiencing. We ate a good breakfast with banana bread and fresh cut pineapple. I had…

August 23, 2023 Since we went to bed at 2:00 AM, we did not set any alarms this morning. We got up a little after 9:00. Mrs. Ruckman made breakfast for us. Then, we sorted through our bags and gave the Ruckmans the things that we had brought for them.  Bro. Ruckman, Joe, Gilbert, and…

August 22, 2023 When we landed in Istanbul, the gate for our next flight was not on the screen yet.  We walked around a little and waited until the gate was on the screen. We found our gate and waited for boarding. The flight to Accra was a bit bumpy. We took motion sickness medicine,…

August 21, 2023 We left the house at 8:00 AM to head to the Houston airport. About thirty minutes from home, we had a flat tire. The spare tire was on a cable underneath the car. It took longer to figure out how to unlatch the spare tire than it did to actually change it.…

Gilbert Consford is our oldest son and a few years ago my preacher, Pastor Danny Dodson, recommended that when our children graduated from Highschool they should go work with a missionary for one year before they started college. My wife and I started praying about where our children should go and who they should work…