Christmas and covid
Since this blog is a journal of our Africa senior mission experience, I thought it best to include a little bit of our only Christmas holiday experience in Accra, Ghana. Some senior missionaries experience two holiday seasons in Ghana because of their calling date. Since our mission began in January 2021, this last holiday season, December 2021, is the only one we will spend here. We weren't sure what to expect with city traffic, people going out of town, etc. etc., so we planned the Cape Coast senior missionary get away for December 3, 4 and 5. It was great and we had a good turnout for it. Everyone enjoyed it. We stayed at the Coconut Grove Beach Resort, enjoyed learning about the Church early days in Ghana with Brother James Edwusi ("the church is true!") visiting Baptism Beach, the Cocoa Shed where they had church meetings, and their "Hill Cumorah" where they would go to pray, sometimes all night, in the hope of missionaries coming someday s...