Outreach in Douase and Doompa

Well I have had lots of firsts since my Big Adventure began back in June – and now the lasts have started!! This is my last Saturday at the clinic and indeed in Ghana, but I’ll try not to dwell on that too much just yet!

This last week we have been involved in an outreach programme in 2 local villages. Starting with Douase where we spent 2 nights singing, dancing, showing the Jesus film and praying with the people form that village.

dancing in Douase

It was a miracle the first night that we managed to get through without any rain – it was threatening all night but we got away with the odd drizzle which thankfully didn’t affect the electrical equipment. There was also the challenge of ‘lights out’ – the term used when the electricity is not working – this time we thankfully had the foresight to bring a generator after previous experiences! These were 2 very challenging nights – its difficult to see what difference we are making when often the people leave as soon as the video stops – but there were also many children and adults who stayed and raised their hands for prayer and in acceptance of Christ.

I also finally sat on one of the little fishing boats the local men use – it was of course on dry land!! The second village we went to was Doompa. Here we received a warm welcome with many familiar faces as a number of the workers on the site live in Doompa (a 2 hour walk from the clinic) and of course Ya Ya the bread lady who comes faithfully each day selling her fresh bread. We took over the covered community area in the centre of the village, setting up our equipment with many helping hands from the children. During the showing of the video (which was in Twi giving Michael a break from translation) on the first night we had front row seat facing the huge crowd that had gathered this was amazing as we were able to see the reactions on some of the closer children’s faces. They were just transfixed by what they were seeing taking every single thing in.


The video started with creation and anytime a picture of animals or plants came up on the screen there was an audible and visible gasp of awe. Some of them may never have seen pictures of anything like that never mind on film up on a big screen. Also from where we were sitting we could see the odd flash of lightening lighting up the clouds from behind and any areas that were free of cloud was covered in bright shining stars. This really is an awesomely beautiful place with beautiful people with such gentle spirits living here.

Please pray for the people of these 2 villages that they may receive God’s message of love for them and that God will continue to shower his blessings down upon them.

This week I also got to drive again – this time I drove back from Doompa the first night we were there. So not only was I driving on the dirt tracks but in the dark!! It was, well, interesting to say the least. The hill out of Doompa is steep, uneven, steep, muddy, steep, rocky and yeh, steep!! At one point Bessie just wasn’t going anywhere so I decided to roll back a bit to take another go at it, to which there was a shout in the back from Obeng (the plumber working on the building site) “back is not good” so I went forward again and this time actually got somewhere. But there were many cries of Sorry-o from me as we hit another rock or pothole that I just hadn’t seen! The only other incident was when we hit a muddy patch after which we had to come to a halt with Becca shouting “Don’t over correct!!” at some points it felt like she was my rally co-driver as she shouted “go left”, “right right” or “keep going straight” but it was all good and we managed to make it back to the clinic in one piece without hitting any dogs, goats or bush rats to Becca’s disappointment!!