WE ARE BACK IN DENVER!

We have ALL made it back safely to the USA!. No equipment problems or connection issues, both flights I believe arrived early (talked to Don last night and think I noted he was early?). Jeanne, Pat and I spent a LONG 6+ hours in the Frankfurt airport, but were pleasantly surprised we were flying Lufthansa instead of United out of Frankfurt, which meant a non-stop directly to Denver, going through customs here instead of Chicago. Saved time and possible connections problems.
Our wrap up in Accra was great, while Don, Pat and Jeanne did not get back as early from Cape Coast as they had hoped (traffic), they did enjoy the visit to Elmina Slave Castle and the "extra" time with Victor. We had a spaghetti dinner together and spent a couple of hours, just going over the week we had just spent in Cape Coast and the blessings we all received from this time.
On Sunday we all went to the CCPC church plant in Tema. Pat, Jeanne and I shared greetings from CCPC and Don preached from Acts 2: 37 - 47 talking about the five foundations of the church (teaching; caring; worshiping; praying and outreaching). It was well received from this congregation, probably 50+ were in attendance, the music as usual was awesome! We too were all blessed by our time at the Tema church plant.
We met with the Tema Pastor Emmanuel Essiam and his leadership team following the worship service and covered needs, issues that they have going forward. They have made some improvements on the church pad, even have the roofing support for adding the aluminum sheets to cover the site for other uses. Pray that the Lord will provide the funds for that to happen. They still have a commitment to the community to build a vocational school on this land as well. They have the drawings for what their "dream" is and will be getting costs for going ahead with this project, again pray for His provision for this. The block making machine continues to be productive and generates about $200 cedes profit each month, so this has enabled them to do the improvements to the church site. Hopefully this will continue and funds can go towards the costs on the vocational school.
Your team did well in Ghana, touched hundreds of lives and I believe has had great Kingdom success on this trip. The folks at HODEM truly do appreciate what CCPC is doing for them and their ministry is being blessed by your continued support of this work.