The Roof is On!!

It's our honor to report to you that the roof is on the mission house! We are so excited. Doesn't it look great!? The electrician has put the outlet boxes in as well.

Next steps. Plumbing, bringing electricity to the site, wiring the house, plastering the walls, tiling the floors, putting in electrical and plumbing fixtures, painting the house, stone work on the outside of the house to protect from mold/mildew.

Stay tuned!

Christmas in Ghana 2008

When we started receiving the giving reports for Christmas in Ghana and realized that we would only be receiving 1/4 of what we had hoped we were quite sad. We thought that we would not be able to do much of anything for the children of the New Life School - but GOD!!!

On December 5th - WorldVenture Ghana stormed the New Life School with the message of Christmas and the love of Christ in a beautiful way.

Ms. Carla Christian (Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church - Houston,TX) put together a beautiful Christmas presentation for the school and everybody participated. The students had speeches and even the teachers had a role to play. There was Christmas music playing and lots of fun to be had by all. The students said Christmas prayers and told the real story of the birth of Christ - even using the ABCs as a prop. When the program ended with a beautiful presentation about the Candy Cane - we did our give away.

Each child received a bag with rice, fish, tomato paste, an energy drink, a toy (or two) and candy. Each teacher and the headmaster of the school received a bag as well.

Our great thanks to Carla for sharing her gifts in Ghana for a 2nd time; and to Mr. Antwi a local grocer who gave us quite a deal on the food stuffs so that it was possible to get this done.

To God Be The Glory!

Knowing God's Will and Living God's Way

This photo is of our December 08 Short Term Team - from l to r; Vanessa Smith, Janice Parker, Geneva DeVaughn (Jan's sister), Lloyd, Lisa Autry, Ken Rucker, Jan and Carla Christian.

Our 2nd conference for Pastor's Wives and Women and Ministry was a great success! The theme for this year was Knowing God's Will and Living God's Way. Our guests were three dynamic pastors wives from Texas. Min. Geneva DeVaughn - whose husband pastors the Silverlake Community Church in Pearland, TX. Atty. Janice Shelton parker - whose husband pastors the Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas, TX; and Min. Lisa Autry - whose husband pastors Eirene Christian Fellowship in Richardson, TX. This group was extra special to us because one of the speakers - Geneva DeVaughn - is Jan's older sister and the first member of our family to visit us on the field!

(The next picture is Geneva speaking at the conference)

The topics that were covered were Prayer, Faith and Excellence in Ministry. 71 women registerd and attended the conference for 4 full days and they all testified that they will never be the same. They were challenged to pray in faith, to trust in God even when things don't seem like they are going as they should and to strive to give God their absolute best in all things. At the end of the week they spent time in prayer and counseling with the women and answered some tough questions about the Bible's sovreignty over culture. One of the women who was serving lunch for us made a profession of faith in Christ for the first time and is now in discipleship at a local church!

Ms. Vanessa Smith, RN (Houston, TX) provided free blood pressure screening for the women at the conference and thanks to her diligence one older woman who had a serious issue (high blood pressure with low pulse) made a trip to the hospital and was given proper medication for her problem. This was Vanessa's 2nd trip to Ghana and she was once again a blessing and a breath of fresh air. Vanessa has a strong gift of prayer - in other words she really knows how to talk to the Father and her prayer covering during the week was invaluable.

At the same time the women were meeting - Pastor Ken Rucker (New Branch Community Church - Dacula, GA) was meeting with the pastors. Pastor Ken's time with the pastors was centered around discipleship and he camped out with the pastors in the book of Colossians. This is Pastor Ken's 2nd time to Ghana this year - and we are looking forward to his 3rd visit next June - when he will continue the work he has started here. It was great to see the pastors applying the lessons they were learning about expositing scripture as they engaged in sermon development and preparation exercises in a small group setting.

(This photo is Lisa Autry and Janice Parker praying for the elders at Shiare)

At the end of the week all of our guests climbed up the mountain to the village of Shiare. Those of you who have tracked with us for a while know that it is our desire to plant a church in Shiare. Shiare is a village of about 3,000-4,000 people with only a handfull of believers. There is a shrine in the area that is a literal spiritual high place where people from all over Ghana and West Africa come to sacrifict to the fetish for different reasons. Seeing the living conditions there and meeting the people was life changing for all. We do solicit your prayers as we continue to visit the people of Shiare attempting to meet their felt needs - so that we can eventually meet their REAL need!

Bible Church of Africa Conference

On November 19th and 20th Lloyd taught at the Bible Church of Africa Missions conference in Tamale - Ghana. The purpose of the event was to ignite the fire for missions among pastors in churches that had been planted in Ghana. The theme for the event was Unity Towards Progress. Lloyd's teaching focus was what a unified ministry team looks like and the key characteristics of a progressive church. There were also sessions on strategic planning led by Dr. Joshua Bogunjoko - the Deputy International Director of SIM for West Africa and Europe.


There were approximately 60 pastors present at the conference with at least 5 different ethnic groups represented. These pastors work in some of the most underserved areas in northern Ghana.

This was the beginning of the development of of what we hope to be a new partnership with the Bible Church of Africa. They will be sending some of these pastors to the Nkwanta Leadership Equipping Center in order to multipy the leadership in their churches.

The Bible Church of Africa is the association of churches planted by SIM (Serving In Mission).