Teamleader's Report - Ghana
September/October 2006

Report filed by:
Rev. Dr. Nii Amoo Darku
Teamleader, Ghana

Along with his blessings and greetings, Rev. Dr. Nii Amoo Darku, Ghana's team leader, sends tidings of exciting times of ministry in Accra, the capital city, and Winneba, a major educational and fishing center on the coast of Ghana.

In Accra, the outreach to street children, with its high retention rate, is also seeing an ever increasing number of children participating in the skill training programs. Mr. Mehretab Tekie, the AE Australia Director of Project Development, was thoroughly impressed on his recent visit to the project sites, and praised the transformation he could see in the otherwise hopeless lives of children. Twenty one of the girls learning hairdressing skills were given commercial hairdryers as part of their training package.

Presently, AE Ghana is working to train twenty-three former prostitutes, many of whom have accepted Christ through the program, in various crafts that will give them an alternative source of income, allowing them to support themselves and their families. Many of the trainers themselves were former prostitutes who were transformed by previous rehabilitation projects.

The preparations for a citywide mission to Winneba, running Nov. 18th-25th, are in their final stages. The week will be preceded by pastoral training and a day of prayer and fasting. AE Ghana is also exploring, through an invitation from a local church, the possibilities of reaching out to Tunis, once a Christian stronghold, now a Muslim city.

The AE workers in Ghana praise God for the transformation they are seeing and for the helpers that have come alongside them making it possible. They request prayer for the former prostitutes in training, for the Winneba Mission, for the staff and board members of AE Ghana itself, and for the salvation of the Muslim world.