Carrie and Denver

Included with a team of twelve from Hope Church in West Des Moines, Iowa, Carrie and Denver departed for Ghana, Africa where they would spend several days in about seven different villages teaching the word of God, education on Malaria and deworming the villages.  A few of the team (including Denver and Carrie) spent one night in a village and lived like the natives lived - sleeping on the cement flour.  Carrie even tried to carry water on her head like the natives do.  Just a few pictures below to share with you what some of their experiences were.  They will return to Iowa on August 11th.

 

The Mission Ghana team spent the first full day in Ghana with our GlobeServe partners in a village reviewing living in a healthy village, educating on Malaria, and distributing Malaria nets. A great day with about 200 wonderful children as well including a game of duck duck goose... All is well and we feel blessed to be here.

Carrie in middle of top row, Denver in green shirt.

 Picture not too clear, but look at the "pants" that were made for each.  When they were on their last day of this "adventure" they were all presented with a special homemade shirt for each team member.

One day was a free day to do some "sight seeing" which as you can see, they got to visit with the elephants coming in to drink water and the monkey playing below.  In the below picture I'm not sure which one was the monkey ????? 

  

Carrie was honored at one of the morning meetings.  The leader was naming new born babies, called Carrie in front and this lady wanted to name her baby after Carrie - so Carrie is holding "Baby Carrie". 

 Handing out de-worming medicine to the village.

 Quilts were made to take over, as well as other items that were sent to leave at the villages.

 We made several "rag dolls" and sent for the children.  If they had "food" and a "doll" in front of them, they would choose the food first - but they were also delighted to have a toy to play with.

The kids had never seen a jump rope, but soon Carrie had them all jumping for joy.

 This is one of the dolls that Grandma Phyllis made for the children.

 Denver and his soccer team.

The team took quilts, medication, flip flops, rag dolls, baseball caps, and many other items to share with the villages.  The last village wanted to give the team something as a gift which consisted of a chicken (it was really a rooster) and a guena hen.  Needless to say, these were left with the pastor there, as they couldn't fly home on the plane with them.