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Making a difference; one step at a time!
By Johanna Federwisch As a teacher from the US coming to Ghana to teach, my expectations for teaching kids here was more of a dream and excitement than a reality. As we traveled here my thoughts and questions surrounding working with the students and teachers changed to “what do the kids actually learn about? Do…
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The Love of Christ
By The Rev Rebekah Neumann On Friday, August 4th we concluded another week of reading camp. For me, it was another birthday spent in Ghana. Why do I come? What difference does it make? Why does Ghanaian Mother’s Hope (GMH) exist? I come because the love of Christ compels me, the commands of Christ convict…
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So Happy to be back in Ghana
By Bruce Neumann After a four-year absence, I had the opportunity to lead art in Ghana one again. This year we did art projects from previous years and two new projects. Because of Monday’s schedule and an early arrival we had extra time. To fill that time I taught them the song “The Moose The…
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God Does More than We can Think, Ask, or Imagine!!
On Saturday, July 29th and Sunday, July 30th a group of dedicated Ghanaian teachers, a few head teachers, and administrators gathered at The Anglican Retreat Center for GMH’s annual teacher training. Men and women who have spent all week with students, and will spend all of next week with students, gathered to learn. The best…
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Honoring Mercia’s One Year Anniversary
This time last year I was preparing to travel to Ghana for Mercia’s funeral. It is hard to believe she has been gone for a year now. There will be a celebration of her life in Ghana next month but I will not be there. Recently one of my local Ghanaian Friends who has lived…
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I think I can, I think I can
This car is now 15 years old and still thinks it can. It had 60,000+ miles on it when we purchased it, thanks to Church of the Redeemer in Sarsota. Now the odometer has turned over, and over and I cannot even imagine how many miles it has traveled. This was yesterday when we traveled…
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Who knew?
Who knew in January of 2020 as we prepared our campaign for the 2020 Giving Challenge that all of our plans would for in-person events would be shut down by early March just as we finished our 2020 Cultural Book Exchange? Who knew that the favorite phrase of the year would be “unmute yourself?” One…
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Eleven 50 pound bags later
144 pounds of materials x 3 villages = 432 pounds: all purchased, packed, delivered, and now consumed by children and teachers who are hungry for knowledge, for books, for reading, for encouragement, for the love of a loving God poured out for them. This is GMH’s Reading Camp, which in now completed for 2021. What…
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Welcome to Reading Camp 2021
It is always exciting each year as we begin our week of three village Reading Camps running simultaneously. Our prayer is to empower each village to run their Reading Camp without our assistance once they have completed three camps with us. Right now we have Akramaman and Twerebo running on their own while we have…
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30 Ghanaian teachers, many very new to the profession.
How do you add value to 30 teaches who have spent most of the last year unemployed or just graduating from high school? Believe me, this was a challenging year, however, thanks to COVID, Zach Neumann had time to finish his Masters Degree, Administration and Personal Development. Part of his thesis was developing a teacher…
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