Easy like Sunday morning...

It's a hot, sunny Sunday morning and all is quiet lakeside.

The Jernigans have travelled to Accra to spend the week with Vovo (Eliana, Ju's mum who is returning to Brazil) a wonderfully generous, open hearted and loving woman. She and her food parcels will be missed :)

The 2 girls and Michael went to Kumasi yesterday for a couple of days so it's just me left in the house. But I have of course got James to keep me entertained.

Ive been thinking about and praying for the rest of the team this morning as they took part in the commissioning service and enjoy fellowship with their families over lunch. Wont be long till they are all here and all the wonderful planning will hopefully come to fruition.

So some news from the week which has just passed.

Well i told you how we had been stuck in Kumasi because the roads would have been too bad to travel back...and they were still muddy the next day when we returned. Unfortunately the truck delivering bricks to the clinic discovered this as well...

The driver escaped with only an injury to his hand and a rescue mission was sent the following day, led by Michael to rescue any bricks which were still intact. Thats just one of the risks you have to contend with on the roads over here!!

On Thursday afternoon Hollie led an outreach programme for the young people of Atafram which included a Table Tennis tournament, Ludo and Draughts as well as a dance competition.

(i didnt take part as i wanted to give everyone else a fighting chance!! If you want to see what i mean check out Hollies blog to discover some of her thoughts about me and some of the other characters in our big adventure together!!!!)

Loads of young people came and enjoyed taking part in all the activities and eating the cookies. It's hard to tell what impact it will have but pray that something of God's love will have been shown to them through the fun and the fellowship.

Work on the site is progressing well too with a number of masons on site with their works teams getting the founds prepared. Its interesting and exciting watching it progress as things start to take shape from a piece of bare land. Work is even further on than in these photos which were taken a day or 2 ago.

This shows the site out the back.

And this is the front - to me it just looks like they are digging out a maze!!

As for me...God continues to pour out his blessings daily and gently reminds me that He alone is my strength and while He is protecting me there is nothing, nothing that i should fear.

"The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear?

The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?"

Psalm 27 : 1