Make Your Life Count Forever

I made this my prayer on our recent trip to the Cape Coast area and two evening meetings for a Women's Conference. Those who travel the roads and highways of Ghana either have a genuine faith in Christ or a persistent denial of their own potential mortality. IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE Like a kid in the candy store I'm on an iPhoto Sugar High:) I have no housework or shopping to do.   We don't go to Movies, or watch TV, so I have discovered all the effects buttons in iPhoto . I made these images from the photos of the little sayings on cars, trucks, and Roadside businesses.   Our first stop was Accra and there we had a Saturday Seminar for former students who are now pastoring churches or ministering as evangelists.  I met about 7 people who minister at the Liberian Refugee Camp.  It doesn't officially exist any longer, but of course that's just on paper.  The people are still there because they have nothing to return to in Liberia. ...

Calvary Chapel Training Center Ghana, West Africa In December of 2000 my husband Gary began teaching a small group of men how to study the Bible using the Inductive Bible Study method.  Most were from Ghana's northern region which is harsh and inhospi table.  Famine and hunger are common there, but these men had come to a village in the Volta with a different kind of hunger.  They were seeking a feast and the only thing that could satisfy th eir hunger was the word of God. Thirteen years later more than one thousand students have graduated .  Some pastor one or more churches and many others serve in their local churches .  They disciple new believers , teach children, and support the body of Christ in prayer. Even as this present class nears the end of their final term they sit and eagerly listen to the story of how God worked to make it all happen. When asked how to be effective for God, Chuck Smith would say, "Try to find where the Spirit is m...