By Jim Reed
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How do you know that this year is not the right time to go on a Journey? You’ve got the itch to go. You may have even been thinking about it for years. You’ve talked to others who have gone on Journeys, you’ve watched the videos and even imagined what it would be like to […]
This is the second part to the interview with Dave Towner. See part one on the blog post from November 28th. 2P – How about the second trip? Did you go back with the same objectives or did you go with a new goal? Are you pretty pleased with how much you accomplished from the […]
This is the first installment of a two part interview. Check back on December 5th for part 2! By Innocent Chia Dave Towner is no stranger to short term missions. Before his first trip to Ghana, missions for the task oriented IT Engineer consisted in setting goals and getting projects completed. But when he got […]
Each year, at around this time, the students in our school write pen-pal letters to students in Ghana. We encourage them to tell students their pen-pals about their faith, family, school and what they do in their free time. Invariably the students ask a multitude of questions about the lives of children and how they […]
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Amanda Towner is the daughter of Dave and Joy Towner. She is a Junior at Westminster Christian School where she participates in Music Theatre, Art Club, and Science Olympiad. She works part time at Headquarters Salon. At a youth camp at the age of 13, Amanda gave her life to Christ and became a Christian […]
The Heart of our Ministry I remember clearly sitting at a table in the back of the foyer at First Baptist Church feeling so uncomfortable…praying that people would look at the faces of these children and feel lead to sponsor one of the children at Love and Care Orphanage. So many thoughts ran through my […]
A New Opportunity In eighty days we will be sending another team to Ghana. This will be our sixth team in just over three years. We are excited by all that God has done through us during this time. This time our main goal is to work with teachers and we are excited to be […]
Day 3 The third day of our Journey was spent entirely at Countryside Orphanage. Kevin, Ben and I spent our time doing interviews for a video Alighted Lantern is producing for the orphanage. It also gave us the opportunity to extensively tour the facility. Countryside Orphanage Over the course of our interviews we discovered that […]
Our Journey I have been asked by several people to give a brief account of the Two Pennies Journey to Ghana this spring. I have decided to do this in a series of four blogs that will each cover two days of our journey. I hope this gives you an idea of how we progressed […]
[one_fourth] [/one_fourth] [three_fourth_last]What an amazing trip! Last week I returned to Ghana withBen Grey and Kevin Ramos. We had an extremely busy and productive trip. We were able to visit schools to deliver letters from students at Highland School, pass out supplies and meet with teachers and administrators. We conducted almost two dozen interviews, met with […]