Happy Fathers Day!!

Another special day…Happy Fathers Day!! :)

We have just returned from the Sunday service at Amakom Methodist which was pretty cool.

There was lots of singing and dancing and I brought greetings from the Irish Methodist Church to the congregation. There was a powerful word about the love of God. Ebenezer then took the microphone introducing Hollie, Rebecca and I. First by our Twi name which is the day of the week you were born on. Rebecca and I were both born on Tuesday so we are Abana and Hollie is Aquia. And as a special welcome the 3 of us had to go to the front and dance African style…this is always a cause for great amusement, a lot of the congregation then joined us as we danced, moving round in a circle.

There was also an auction as part of the offering; plantain and cassava were up for sale. The money from the auction would partly go towards the tithe of the farmer who provided the goods and the rest to the church. We thought this was an opportunity to buy some cassava to learn how to pound it into fufu, a local dish which is eaten a lot.

Today is very hot after the welcome coolness of the storm yesterday, which means that hopefully all the beasties which sought refuge inside yesterday will return outdoors!!

Hollie and i discovered this particular beastie in the office last night when we went to retrieve our things after the storm...needless to say we didn't hang around for too long!!

"And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:2

Yes it is one of God's creatures - he made it and saw that it was good(?!) but there are some things that are just too difficult to love!!!