Great first day in the village with the Northside Team

We had a great first day in the village.

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Please keep praying. Today we play and minister the the children.

May God be glorified!

Terry

Team Arrived Safely In Buipe

Long day of traveling but the Lord answered your prayers by helping us have a safe drive, some very enlightening and challenging cultural experiences and they are now settled in their room with full stomachs and plenty of clean water.

Our day begins tomorrow with part of the team preparing for Isaac's roof and part of the team begins following up on the water project.

Keep those prayers a coming!

May God be glorified!

Terry and Amy

The Northside Team has arrived safely in Ghana.

After a long flight from the US, the team arrived safely and we began our journey north.

We only drove a couple of hours to the top of the mountain so we are only an hour away from our breakfast stop in the morning.

We had a great time of fellowship and wonderful meal together overlooking the city of Accra.

I could tell they were very tired and so after supper they went to bed. We leave early in the morning for Buipe.

Please pray for our journey north.

May God be glorified!

Terry and Amy

Site Development Begins

The land is so depleted of carbon material that we will be creating several places to plant where we will deposit a layer of sawdust with a thin layer of chicken manure. It serves as a compost that retains the moisture in the soil and keeps the weeds under control and every time it rains the nutrients from the chicken manure and the decomposing sawdust will enrich the soil.

We will pull back the sawdust, plant in the soil and compost around the plant with sawdust. Time will tell but much of the research that we have been doing says this will work. I wish we had a wood chipper that we could shred up some branches, leaves and all, and use.

The next challenge will be how to keep the goats and sheep out until the living fences are established. We will probably be stretching chicken wire for a temporary measure.

Hopefully soon we will have a hand dug well at this site as well to help with water needed to not only water plants and trees that we will be planting but eventually to provide water for the animals we will be working with.

Plans are underway for five beehives, a facility to grow mushrooms and managed grazing areas for the animals we will be raising.

We covet your prayers and partnership.

May God be glorified!