NAPE HAS LANDED...THE WORK CONTINUES

SAFE ARRIVAL... (Tumefika Salama)

We arrived in Accra's Kotoka International Airport safely and after two days we all had our bags (three bags were stuck in Frankfurt and arrived a day late) and had settled into our places of residence.
Stepping out from the KLM flight into the warm evening, it felt good to be at the tail end of the TWENTY FOUR hour trans-atlantic trip and it felt even better once I went through cutsoms and immigration easily and without incident.
PRAISE GOD!

Half of our team is staying in hotels in Accra, while Peter, Beth and Naa Armeley Okantey and I stay with family friends outside Accra.
Its about a 30 minute trip into the city but with the traffic jams and rush hour it can turn into a two hour adventure like it did for Beth Armeley and I this afternoon.

The city reminds me a lot of Nairobi except for the different languages and the heat. The people are dressed alot more colorfully in Kinte cloth and other fabrics with bold nature colours and its great to see alot of construction and development happening as Ghana's economy grows in a stable politocal environment

Our hosts are a very warm and hospitable couple and the fellowship over food as well as the story-telling, praying and laughter together has made the first two evenings here very enriching.
They have been Peter's friends for years and we look forward to getting to spend more time with them and trying all the Ghanaian dishes they prepare so well.

The first few meetings with universities and individuals went well.
We have established connections with a potential site for staging the computers for the students' online access as well as one of the colleges where some of the scholarship recipients are learning.
(UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, Legon and ASHESI UNIVERSITY respectively.)

Tomorrow we begin a weekend road trip to Cape Coast which is a coastal town where slaves were imprisoned and then shipped to the Americas during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
(The coastal city is a major tourist draw visited by many people tracing the roots of its historical and cultural past, which thankfully is not a core part of its identity or function anymore)

We are going to be visiting Cape Coast University as well as a business and high school nearby.
Please pray for cultivation of partnerships and potential students.

Please pray for traveling mercies for the 3 hour trip in a van as well as for the health and comfort of Naa Armeley, she is Peter and Beth's young daughter and we are hoping she adjusts to the heat, humidity and the long bumpy ride on a freeway from Accra to Cape Coast.

Thanks for all the love and prayers.

Pictures and more information will be forthcoming as we keep working and traveling.

Shalom,
Barnabas