Update 1

Greetings from Accra!
Thank you for keeping me in your prayers! I am so thankful for the uplifting emails; they have been very helpful in my adjustment time. It was such an adventure getting here and that was not even the beginning. It has been a wonderful experience already and I am sure it will only get better!! Since I have been here, I have assisted Ramona with a child abuse case (not at the Beacon House), taken a child to the agency to try to find him a home and been to the doctor with one precious little girl that has malaria. No worries though they have medicine for that here and since they caught it early enough she will recover in no time. There are about 10 out of the 20 kids who are adopted with all of the paperwork done, but they are waiting for their passports, which they have been waiting on for a long time. Please pray that their passports will come in soon so these precious little children can get started on their new lives!
On a personal level I have had my own adventures. I have experience riding the tro tro (a van) to the Medina market, which is jam packed with Ghanaians selling everything from toothpaste and clothes to electrical equipment. It is shocking how expensive food is at the shops here (it’s a cheaper in the markets but not as safe), just a few examples: a normal large container of strawberries runs $20 and one cucumber is $8 (keep in mind that Ghana money matches American money almost to the dollar).Of course not everything is that expensive but those are the two that blew my mind the most. I have also been to the fish market at the harbor. That in itself is a whole different story! Let’s just say that frozen dead fish smell just as bad as live fish! J They are taking very good care of me here and I look forward to sharing more adventures with you along the way. Please continue to keep myself, the children and the workers here at the Beacon House in your prayers!
p.s. I have attached a few pictures from some of my recent adventures.
God Bless,
Becky