Hello from Tema Ghana - Frank Miller

Well I finally have somewhat reliable internet service today, so I thought I would shoot off a quick e-mail. Have been here a week now and in some ways it seems much longer, but Dave and I are feeling anxious as to how fast it is going, and the amount of ground to cover yet. Today is an "off" day as we are not traveling. I was not feeling too good this morning, but am better now. A little gastro-intestinal distress! Something I ate somewhere - it wasn't too bad though.

We met with Kris Klokenka, plant manager of the ADM shea nut processing plant here in Tema, and learned a lot about the process of gathering the nuts in the north, and what would need done to get the nuts to the plant here. The main use of the nuts is extracting the oils that will be shipped to Germany for production of Chocolate (and I as most thought all we needed is cocoa!)We will travel to Tamale, in the north of Ghana, on Friday for about 5 days which is the region where these nuts grow. We are hoping to organize the peoples in this any so as to harvest these nuts efficiently, and provide much needed income to these people groups. This can make a huge difference in these people's lives. Pray for us as the temperatures in this region can go as high as 120 in the heat of the day! We have been in some hot situations already, but nothing near this hot. At the house here in Tema I have gone to sleeping without the air, so as not to get "too use to it" :-), and be able to tolerate the higher temps to come.

We have visited some of the other on-going projects here, and I find there is still much to do!! Some projects are doing very well and some are still struggling. I wish I could say conditions have improved a lot since my last trip, but unfortunately not! ‘Still a lot to do for the Ghanaian people. The good thing is the church plants are doing well and the people's faith remains strong!!! Many people are being baptized, and the Kingdom of God is growing in Africa! One young pastor we visited with has had 60 baptisms in a little over a year. Most of these are people coming from an idol-worshipping background! Most of the Pastors are FIRST GENERATION CHRISTIANS!! It is amazing to hear some of their stories!

I hope this e-mail finds all of you well,

I will try to write again sometime - but no guarantees :-)
Frank <><

Frank Miller is from Columbus, IN. Frank’s role is to help David evaluate the needs and the progress of this, his 2nd trip to Ghana.