What a wonderful week! This year, our Ghana mission team was simply Rev. Jervis Djokoto, Rev. Joseph Seidu, and me. Rather than travel around the country, this year we stayed in Accra and spent our time in equipping leaders. I met with the BOA and then we all three led a whole day marriage seminar (at their request). The pastors’ wives (and one pastor’s husband) came to participate in this seminar and, for the first time, the Provisional Annual Conference meeting.
As part of the annual meeting, every pastor and church planter gave an oral summary of his or her written annual report, including membership and financial data. Several showed photos so we could picture their church plants, the progress on constructing their building, or land they have managed to purchase. After their presentations, other delegates asked questions or offered advice, which was kindly offered and well received. It was real “conferencing.”
FMCIC has committed to stand alongside this newly-forming church in Ghana with our prayers and financial support. One reason we didn’t take a big team and travel around this time was that last year’s team suggested we come every other year, and on the years when the churches who love our work in Ghana do not send any team members, they could send an offering equivalent to what they would have spent on sending a team.
Please consider donating to our growing ministry in Ghana. Pastors and church planters serve sacrificially, often in areas with real strongholds resisting the gospel. As their partners, let’s do our part to encourage them with monetary support, which goes to the national church and is distributed among pastors based on need. And remember to pray!
Paula Moriarity will lead a team next March. Consider joining us!
