{"id":2543,"date":"2011-10-11T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2011-11-13T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:24:12","slug":"ghana-update-from-carol-and-david-christensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/2011\/10\/ghana-update-from-carol-and-david-christensen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Update from Carol and David Christensen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GHANA MISSION STATEMENT<\/span><\/p>\n

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We travel to Ghana as ambassadors of Christ\u2019s love and join with our mission partner the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with people of their churches, schools, and projects. Ours is a ministry of presence as we ask God and the leaders of the church to use us in whatever way they see fit to enrich the ministry of Christ\u2019s church in the Volta Region. We work through its congregations, projects, schools, development programs, and medical facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

We affirm together our partnership in mission and ministry as we bring greetings from the people of The Federated Church, Edgartown, MA and of Christian churches in the United States. We affirm, \u201cUnless God is in the building the laborers build in vain.\u201d Psalm 127:1<\/span><\/p>\n

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David Christensen meeting with village elders, the chief, church leaders to establish a water committee in the village of Takla Gbogame to receive water and sanitation helpin partnership with Rotary International and USAID.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Carol Christensen teaching in Primary School in Ho, Ghana West Africa<\/strong><\/div>\n

GHANA UPDATE 2011<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear Friends- Carol and I want to share with you what is happening in our continuing \u201cMission to Ghana\u201d . Because of a variety of circumstances, family and otherwise, we were not able to make our annual visit.\u00a0 By inter-net, bank transfers and deliveries made by brother, Jim Christensen, we were able to insure that all the funds which were donated through us went to the appropriate recipients.\u00a0 Thank you for your continuing support and prayers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. 1.<\/span> <\/span> Through a partnership with the local communities, the church, Rotary International Water Projects, and USAID, in 2011, 114 Water and Sanitation Projects were completed for over 250,000 people, including Takla Gbogame. \u00a0This culminated a three year process and cost $5 million, and involved hours of local communal labor.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. 2.<\/span> <\/span> Delivered to the Regional Leprosarium: 100 kilos of rice, 2 gallons of cooking oil, and 2 boxes of soap, insuring that those \u201ccured lepers\u201d will have food until the end of the year, while receiving on-going care and treatment.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. 3.<\/span> <\/span> University Education for Elementary School teacher – tuition for 2011-12<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. 4.<\/span> <\/span>School Supplies Ho Dome Primary School<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. 5.<\/span> <\/span> EP Church Scholarship Funds through the National Church Headquarters<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  6. 6.<\/span> <\/span>Supplies for Mawuli Junior High\u00a0 ( 140 tee squares & Magna-tiles for3 dimensional templates)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  7. 7.<\/span> <\/span> Gifts and Funds to Klefe Creche (Nursery School)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  8. 8.<\/span> <\/span>Supplies for EP Takla Gbogame Primary School <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  9. 9.<\/span> <\/span> Funds distributed to Womens\u2019 Activity Center (Training for women to be self-sufficient).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    10.<\/span> <\/span> Purchased goods from carvers, jewelry makers, seamstresses, bead makers, micro-businesses, and senior centers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    11.<\/span> <\/span> School Fees for\u00a0 Ho Heve Primary School ( Miami Everglades Can recycles)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    12.<\/span> <\/span>School Uniforms for students at EP Schools <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    13.<\/span> <\/span>Funds to Church Headquarters for them to use at their discretion<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    14.<\/span> <\/span>Supplies for Takla Junior High\u00a0 (60 mechanical instrument kits, 60 tee squares)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    15.<\/span> <\/span> Funds distributed to rural clinics<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    16.<\/span> <\/span> Pharmaceuticals distributed to Volta Regional Hospital through \u201cAmericares\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    17.<\/span> <\/span>Arranged for Solar Powered Talking Bibles to be delivered to Leprosarium for blind patients and to EP Church for members who are poor and blind<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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    In His Service \u2013 David and Carol Christensen<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cMinistries in Ghana\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff GHANA MISSION STATEMENT   We travel to Ghana as ambassadors of Christ\u2019s love and join with our mission partner the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with people of their churches, schools, and projects. Ours is a ministry of presence as we ask God and the leaders of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-from-our-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}