A Little Vacation

We’ve been having too much fun! We left a few days early to bring the guys back to Accra because we wanted to do a little site seeing. On the agenda: Makola Market and Kakum National Park (the canopy walk). So we headed to Cape Coast – a quant little African beach town about 40 minutes from Kakum National Park. We stayed in a great little stone hotel (with air conditioning – wooohoo!!) that was built by the Dutch back in the 1800’s sometime. We walked around to view the town and the guys were invited to participate in pulling up one of the fishing nets. Notice the seasoned hands compared to the soft Obruni hands. :) The sites were beautiful.

Off another few hours the next day to Accra where we visited the crazy Makola Market and art center. We were attacked by vendors but found some neat items to purchase. We also got to see Kente being made. It’s a local handmade fabric that is very time consuming to make, but beautiful. Also, the wood working is amazing - the hand carved drums were underway... 

After we dropped off the guys we made one last stop on the way back, Takoradi. Another little town on the coast. We stayed with a wonderful brother and sister that were so hospitable; they even served us pizza for dinner and for desert (unheard of in Ghana) we had baileys irish cream over ice cream. We’ve certainly been spoiled. The sunset of the beach topped it all off. But we're glad to be back "home" in Tarkwa.

Our travels were enjoyable but preaching was not forgotten. While awaiting the bus to arrive I had out my Awake magazine and we were approached by two local brothers that helped us along the way. It's amazing to go anywhere in the world and feel like you have family everywhere. We shared literature with ones we traveled with along the way. One local woman so happily helped us find the TroTro station when we got off the first bus and was happy to receive the Family Life tract, of which she read the entire tract before our arrival. Then when we toured the castle in Cape Coast, the center of slave trade    during the 1800's, Annette was able to explain how the transition of world powers was prophesied in the Bible. And when we learned during the tour that religious entities were responsible for initiating and supporting the slave trade for hundreds of years, we helped him understand that God does not approve. Jeremy then had the opportunity to explain to one of the vendors in the market that we were here in Ghana as volunteers to help teach the deaf about the Bible, the man was eager to receive a Watchtower and learn how to look up the scriptures in his own Bible.

More coming soon.

Elli