Tag: Episcopal Diocese of Maryland

  • Why Do I Come Here Year After Year?

    I thought deeply about this question as I packed three suitcases with school supplies, water filters, children’s blankets and pillowcase dresses getting ready to leave the US. Then I packed three more suitcases for the team that is arriving next week and pondered some more. Why do I leave my family and all the comforts…

  • Guess who’s going to Ghana?

    Guess who’s going to Ghana?

    For the last 5 summers the core team of Becki Neumann+, Bruce Neumann and Zach Neumann have been traveling to Ghana with adult and teen volunteers to run a Reading Camp. The camp targets children who are struggling to learn to read in English–not their native language. Not only is learning English a struggle but…

  • HOW MANY BATHROOMS ARE IN YOUR HOUSE?

    How many bathrooms at in your house?  Mine has 2 and there are only 2 of us living there.  Recently, the bathroom at an office where I do some accounting was shut down.  I had to leave one building and walk to another to find a working toilet.  It was inconvenient but, my employer understands…

  • Thank You United Thank Offering

    Last year Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope received a generous grant from the United Thank Offering, through the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Ascension Episcopal Church, Westminster, and the Anglican Diocese of Accra.  With the help of Barbara English, Dottie Arthur, The Right Reverened Eugene Sutton, Archbishop Justice Akrofi, The Reverend Ronald Fisher and a host of others,…