Just another day in Ghana

Not really. You know that last thing that you would expect on a sunday morning when a pastor from Ghana picks you up for church that his first question would be "so did you watch the presidental election debate last night on CNN"? Its utterly amazing how connected these people are with America. I would say that most americans dont think about foreigners that often, but it is clear that these people pay very close attention to what we are doing.

Anyway, so the pastor of the Domi Elim Christian Center picked corbett and I up for church this morning. Its about a half hour drive from where we are staying. It was way different than america. There is actually traffic problems on Sunday because people are on their way to church. This nation is very open to Christianity. They have businesses named things like "Jesus King of Glory Hair Saloon" (yes, saloon not salon). "holy ghost fire dumptruck svcs" and "by the grace of God cement blocks' Its quite amusing. Pastor says they sometimes take it to the extreme. he once saw a "holy ghost drinking pub" We're still looking for it so we can take a picture.

The Domi church was an experience. 125+ people in a concrete building with a metal corrugated roof all praising God as loud as you can possibly imagine. It was honestly deafening how loud it was, but boy were they praisin the LORD! It was awesome. They sang some songs we knew like "as the deer' and some other hymn that escapes me right now. Nevertheless, the spirit of the Lord was in that place. They worshipped for a good hour. No AC or nothing, just praising God.

The pastor gave me a good introduction, and then I was able to preach a great message to the people through an interpreter. Different experience than normal, but the spirit of God was moving. Before I began my message, i reminded them that we are family in Christ Jesus. That we would be spending eternity together. You should have seen the smiles. we had an immediate connection. It was so great.

So the preaching went well, and then the Lord led me to do an altar call to pray over people to renew their faith. Loads of people came forward, but there was one guy that really touched my spirit.

Now understand, by this time the worship team was back up at the front of the church, and were playing LOUD- not Faith and Victory Loud, I'm talking like Faith and Victory Turned up all the way would be almost as loud kind of loud. So, I'm screaming in this young mans ear "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM JESUS TODAY?" he said something, but i couldn't hear him, so i repeated it, "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM JESUS TODAY?" he said "I WANT TO BE SMARTER IN SCHOOL". Wow. No xbox, no new house, no I want a car. I want to be smarter in school. Amen we prayed over that guy in Jesus name for the renewing of his mind and it was powerful.

God is moving here. Its quite different than in the states in that the people here serve the Lord with no reservations. They are hungry for the word and excited to serve God with Vigor and enthusiasm. its unlike anything I've ever seen. Its very encouraging.

Corb and I were able to go out into the city a bit today. the people here are so nice. They love to talk to us cause we are "aboonie" which is akin to "gringo" i think, but its not bad. Their real nice. We met these guys and talked to them for like 10 mins about politics and stuff. It was surreal. Great experience.

Tomorrow we dont have anything to do until the night, so the plan is to go to the huge main outdoor market in Accra. It should be sweet.

God Bless you all. Thanks for the prayers. The picture today shoudl be the guys we met in the market.

Thanks to the people who wrote comments. Its nice to know that we're blessing you with these posts.
ps. the picture tonight isnt working for some reason.. i'm frustrated, so i'm going to try it again tomorrow. We coudl post the pics on another site, but they are all 2mb and we dont have a way to shrink them down...