Daddy is Home!!

Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords

Monday, June 18, 2012

The kids were eagerly awaiting Daddy’s arrival.  Joe had been gone to Israel for a week. Danny greeted Daddy with a gun saying, “Surrender or Die!”  A little…

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.

The kids were eagerly awaiting Daddy’s arrival.  Joe had been gone to Israel for a week.
Danny greeted Daddy with a gun saying, “Surrender or Die!”  A little earlier, Danny was running around the house saying, “Perish or Die!”  I asked him if he knew what “perish” meant.  He said, “No.”  I told him that it meant “to die.”  So, he had to change his wording.
Poor Daddy had been going strong for over 24 hours.
Daddy was presented with his Father’s Day creations.
The kids were so excited with the rocks that Daddy brought back.  He got rocks from Joppa.  He told them that was where Jonah got on the ship.  Bonnie said that she has Jonah’s footprint on her rock.

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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