...Nyame Adu eye pa...

By the grace of God, we are doing well.

The trip is going pretty well, yes we have had a few bumps in our road, but if this was easy, everyone would be doing it. I know God likes to challenge us to test our faith and total reliance on Him and He is doing that very well on this trip.

Yesterday was a great day. There is this little boy named William, who has a really really bad kidney, from the malaria he had as a child. Well him and I were talking last night and he all of the sudden he just lied down on my knee. It took me a little while to realize that he was crying. But once I did, I asked him if he was alright. And with his big brown eyes-filled with tears, he quietly said, yeah, its just my kidney. My heart sank, because I know how serious his condition is. Because we had gone to the hospital with him to get him a bunch of different medications. Total cost was 81 ghana cedes. About $57, and that is a lot here. So I started worrying, thinking, well should I take him to the hospital, what if he goes to bed tonight and does not wake up... You know the things that go through your mind when you are worrying. Then, I looked at him and was said, "William, can I pray for you?". He looked up at me and shook his head yes. So there in the midst of about 7 children, all climbing on me because I had reverted my attention to just William, I prayed for him. Now, this was definitely nothing in my power because there I was trying to figure out how I could make him better, and there God was saying Janie, you can't, only I can. So I prayed for him. He got up and went into his room after that, and said it was feeling a little better. I told him to lay down and rest, and after about an hour going by I went in to check on him. He was laying on his bed and I sat down and asked him how he was feeling, he said a little better, and I said, well let's pray again. So we did. I asked him how he felt, and he said the pain was starting to go away. Amazing, huh. That our God, can do that... When I went back this morning, he was all smiles, telling me that the pain completely left after we prayed.. To me, that was worth this trip in itself. To show him that a God, bigger than we could ever imagine, loves him and cares enough about him, to take his pain away. Simply beautiful.


Today we are going to go back to the market to get some more stuff for the orphanage. We have already bought them a lot of fresh fish, yams, plantains, beans, three sheep (which we plan on slaughtering today) and much more. Our focus right now is protein because that is something they lack in their diets. Today we will get medicine and baby stuff for them. And later tonight is when we will slaughter the sheep, for our big party tomorrow. Michael and the older boys at the orphanage somehow believe that I will be slaughtering one of the sheep, yeah right. I am not convinced that I can do that yet, but I will let you know what happens!

Hope you all are doing well, I miss you all.

Janie