Timothy's Letters & Photos ~2008 from tarkwa,  ghana   africa

1AM - too tired to sleep"  Ever the clever Timothy... totally relating to the Ghanaians	Yeah, pretty much Ghanaian ;) " Timothy's room - in progress.  It will eventually be a 'boys dorm' when the mission's school is underway.
The big move into our new place! In Africa you   don't ride *in* the moving van, you ride *on* it ;) "	Typical walking path"
A picture of a house just behind ours, where a real family lives and will be sleeping tonight. No running water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing, barely any food and money and you can hardly call that a roof. You see these all over Ghana especially in the smaller villages..."     The internet cafe is quite a long walk..   I started     out with socks and shoes  and arrived like this!"  :o)	Straight up: African " Timothy is carrying water on his head.  It's actually a large bag of smaller bags of water for drinking and cooking and rinsing dishes.  The other water they use is from a well and they get it in buckets.  It's for "showering" and washing. My good friend fellow and soldier in the painting battle!"

 

This is their new home and facility for His Vision Mission
the missionary training & Bible school in Tarkwa, Ghana


Timothy says: “The power went out the other night.”

 

(Timothy's letters will now be posted individually)

 

Monday, January 21, 2008
(pictures of the apartment that is being built for the missionaries... this is where Timothy will live )

 
locked out of the kitchen.  Timothy prays for water.
(I told him it looks very nice.  He says, yes, it does... and then he says, looks can be deceiving.)


( and this room is being completed - where the students will attend classes.)

 
A local man prepares their meals at his home.  And a dinner guest... "they're everywhere!"

Timothy says you can get a passport photo in 2 minutes and he got a driver's license, too.
(I had to include this photo he sent: "Unto Your Hands Jesus" reads the lettering
on the back of the car in front of them.  Timothy said he smiled.

Timothy said the streets were filled with people and pandemonium when the Ghana team
won the first match of the African Cup of Nations - football (soccer type) tournament game!
Timothy was practically knocked over as he took pictures and became sort of a spectacle himself...
as the only blond in that crowd - and taking pictures!!

 

 

 
 

Timothy and the Lucas's arriving in Tarkwa, Ghana... A long, hot ride in an extremely packed little car.

These were the earliest notes we received when Timothy first arrived in Ghana.........

Monday, January 14, 2008
Timothy says he  ...is warming to a little Guinness Malta action..
It’s sorta refreshing if you like a thick molasses oatmeal flavor ;) "
 

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Hey Mom! 

How are you doing?  Things are going well here..   Sorry for so few letters, we are in the process of getting our housing situation all figured out, and with that is the internet situation as well! 

Anyway, this is the second time I have typed this =)  We are here at the internet cafe we finally found.  We were here for a few minutes and the power to the city shut off for a bit.  We were about ready to go home but just in time it came back on!  

We have running water for only a few hours of the day.  I have been getting used to taking showers out of a bucket with a cup.  Nice cold refreshing showers--no hot water, which is fine!  The other day we hadn't had water all day, and we were all wanting to take showers and flush the toilet.  So I decided I would just walk down a ways to the well and get a bucket or two of water.  I had just gotten back to the house and--of course--the water came on=)  (We are staying in a third story apartment.)