Bush trimmings make great forts!

Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords

Monday, May 21, 2012

When the kids got home from school on Friday, all of the bushes had been trimmed.  Immediately they decided that bush trimmings were great fort-making materials. Bonnie entering…

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.

When the kids got home from school on Friday, all of the bushes had been trimmed.  Immediately they decided that bush trimmings were great fort-making materials.
Bonnie entering her “fort”
Inside the “fort”
Danny found some other great treasures too.  He found a couple “guns” and a “whip” among the trimmings.  He had his treasures in his “fort.”
Gilbert was going to show me that he had a pillow in his fort, but Thumper had stolen his pillow.  Gilbert had to retrieve it before he could relax in his fort.
This is the life!

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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