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A few innocent questions – by Kimberley Langston
The several days of reading camp were so busy and full of activity, but there were two times when things slowed down and some great conversations developed that I wanted to share. The first happened out at the school while the kids were playing after lunch. There are a little over 60 kids registered in…
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Pineapples, Bananas and Mangos— Oh My -by Kimberley Langston
By this point in the trip, the whole team is craving a huge, cold, crisp salad. We cannot eat the produce here unless it is cooked because the water it is washed with is not normally safe water. Back in the States, our family eats a lot of fruits and veggies so it’s been wonderful…
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If I had grown up in Akramaman Village – by Rev. Rebekah Neumann
If I had grown up in Akramaman Village where we run reading camp, at my preschool graduation I would have stood on the open air stage and in my biggest big girl voice and announced to the world, “MY NAME IS REBEKAH AND I AM 5 YEARS OLD!” My family would be in the audience…
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Reading and love – by Zach Neumann
Today is the final day of reading camp. This was my fifth reading camp in Ghana and each year, the final day brings a swath of thoughts and emotions as we say goodbye to our children in our village. I am sometimes asked why I come to Ghana to do a reading camp in a…
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What happens in Ghana – by Scott Lyons and Bruce Neumann
Scott Lyons I am on a mission trip to Ghana with Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope and my job is to replace dangerously cracked plastic beams of a playground set. My teammate, Bruce Neumann and I are using a heavy, dense wood for the replacement. We are also painting St. Paul’s preschool in Akramaman. Bruce painted it…
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I thought I had been exposed to everything. . . by Elizabeth Werbiskis
One of the things I requested of Debi Frock, founder of Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope, on this Ghana trip was that I get the opportunity to do more than just help with Reading Camp, sight-see and shop. She granted my wish and then some! Tuesday, Debi and I went to Denchira, a new village, to deliver…
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TIA-(This Is Africa) Lessons Learned from a first-timer – by Kimberley Langston
This Is Africa (TIA): Lessons Learned from a First Timer It does not take long being in Africa for a Type-A personality like myself to experience two important acronyms: GMT – Ghanaian Maybe Time: The time when an event, pick-up, arrival, etc. is anticipated, because there is no telling when it will actually happen for…
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Created to Read
Preparations – by Debra Gustin We all had breakfast out on the patio and watched while Accra bustled around us. The bus came to pick us up and we finally headed to the school. The bus was packed to the roof with suitcases and supplies for camp. It took us just over 1 ½ hours to…
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My first Ghanaian Anglican Church experience. . . – by Linda Rines
I expected the service to be long since I had heard they often last 3 hours. Since it was the first Sunday in the month on Aug 4th, it was 4 hours! The 13 of us on the Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope Reading Camp Team sat together in the front and were recognized as visitors from “the States”.…
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Castles, canopy and monkeys–what a combination.
Thursday, August 1 This post was written by our three teens from Virginia Beach. The day in the jungle – by Maggie Albert Today we went to the jungle and walked on the rope bridges. It was such an awesome experience to be able to walk on a rope bridge across the trees. It was…
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