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Nov. 13, 2000 Dear friends, It is hard to believe we left Texas a whole year ago. We feel in many ways as if our work has just begun. So many things consume vast amounts of time. Just getting our government paperwork together has been rather astounding (we believe our resident permits and Linda's nursing license should finally be completed next week). Learning how to live here efficiently has been a challenge. The first months after we arrived we were unsettled because we were working around our lack of house wares, books, desks and shelves until our delayed household goods arrived. Then we had a chaotic time while Linda lived in Accra and we simultaneously prepared for the Primary Health Care Worker course. Now that the course is over, finally, we have been in Yendi long enough at one time to develop more of a work routine! We were able to have more bookshelves made at a workshop in Tamale, so ALL of our books are off the floor - nice, especially since we run an informal lending library for the neighborhood kids. Our kids are appreciating having fewer school interruptions as we teach people the need to respect their study time. The kids are also becoming more comfortable and helping more with the cooking and other household chores. The rains have ended, so in addition to seeing patients at the clinic here, Fran Thornton and Linda have started going to villages with some of the clinic staff again. Richard has been working on many of the computers at the mission, especially the one the clinic bookkeeper uses. He has also helped Jerry Thornton with his house and finished the "intercom" system connecting the clinic to the houses nearby. We are all very involved in maturing the local Christians, many of whom are recent converts from extremely different backgrounds. We have been giving out more Bibles lately, particularly to the school-aged kids, who need to study it for their "religion" exams, but are also eager for any reading material. And, we have been surprised at how many older women can read English well enough to want a Bible. We always invite them to take a World Bible School introductory course, and most accept it eagerly. The straight-forward approach of the courses (look to the Bible for the answers) has a particular appeal here in Ghana, where there are over 7000 denominations, including some that combine Islamic and Christian beliefs, or Christianity and Voodoo! WBS courses are designed to help people learn to read the Bible for themselves, so that they will not be misled. Please continue to pray for the work here, especially for those who are just beginning to learn of the Good News of Christ. In the service of the King, |
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