General Interest
Traveling Missionary Information
Western Africa
October 6 - 20, 2011
This fall the Prisoners For Christ Outreach Ministries team will be departing our homeland to travel to the western African country of Ghana. Ghana's southern border is the Atlantic Ocean. Ghana has a land mass about the area of Michigan and has a population of 24 million, equivalent to Texas, the second most populous state of the United States. The official language of Ghana is English. Ghana has the largest surface area man-made lake in the world (twice the area of Rhode Island) entirely within its borders - Lake Volta (created by the Akosombo Dam, completed in 1965).
Our team has four persons travelling (see biographies) to Ghana. This is the first time going to Ghana for everyone on the team. Prisoners For Christ has been to Ghana once, back in 2006.
As is our method we will pursue a number of objectives - train and assist our local missionaries through three all-day conferences, conduct numerous in-prison crusades across the entire country, bring humanitarian aid, encourage the brethren, and spend time with our PFC National leader discussing the needs of the ministry and agree on the plan for ongoing prison ministry. It is always a rich time of fellowship to be with like-minded soul-winners with a heart to reach the incarcerated.
Our team is set and includes three veteran PFC missionaries as well as one first-time PFC missionary. The team leader is Bob Jordan, a veteran of five campaigns to Africa and India. The assistant team leader is Don Szolomayer who is also responsible for audits and conference training for our foreign nationals. Don is a veteran of five campaigns and he and Bob have traveled together overseas three times in past years. Jeff McVey is the team's finance and communications leader for this trip; this is Jeff's fourth PFC international trip and he and Bob together were on the India team in 2010.
Bob, Don, and Jeff are all PFC international group leaders, and each have led teams overseas and handled the finances and anyone of them could be the group leader for the Ghana team. Our newest international PFC missionary is Ray Wing. Ray is a veteran PFC group leader state-side in our adult and juvenile ministries; this is Ray's first international PFC trip and as such PFC policy is that the first-time campaigners get to enjoy the experience before taking on major duties in subsequent trips. All four will participate in conference teaching (three all-day conferences are planned for the trip) and all four will share in the prison-wide crusades planned for this trip (we'd like to get to eight or more prisons).
Campaign costs for me will be $5000. This covers air fair, ground transportation, Bibles, humanitarian aid to every prison we go to, meals, lodging, and expenses to bring volunteers and other-country volunteers to our conferences (including pastors and volunteers perhaps from Burkina Faso, Togo, Liberia, and Benin). There is not one dime wasted and all giving is gratefully appreciated. Giving can be done on-line by clicking here (https://www.servicenetwork.com/olg/pfc/Donate.asp) and then finding the missionary to support on the pull-down menu.
On this trip we're going to use some technology to lighten the load, specifically Kindle's(tm) and Nook's(tm). We also take laptops, digital cameras and smartphones. Anything to make life easier and to record the events. We'll even use Facebook if we can sort it out!
Ghana Prisons and Conference Venues
Meeting Agendas
Conference Materials
Administration
I'm grateful to the wonderful donors for this missionary campaign. It is a blessing and major encouargement to have these friends in my life. God bless each and every one of them!
Pastor Rollie and Dottie Capes, Bob and Duanne Owen, Steve and Carol Roe, John Forchione, Jeff Winter, Dale and Pat Whitlock, Michael Otto, Charles Rupnick, Esq. and Linda Rupnick, Chaplain Dick and Judy Rothlisberger, Ernie and Evelyn Duston, Dr. Bob and Kathy Segress, Earl and Virginia Spence, Dallas Brodehl, Dr. Perry J. Jones, III, DDS, Rev. Robert and Ruth McKigney, Ernie and Lil Knox, Damon and Debbie Stoddard, Randy Richards, Ralph and Marsha Widell, Juha and Hanna-Mari Vuorinen, Rick Baker, Steve and Pam Sires, Rebecca Jordan, Marjorie Smith, Melissa Jordan, Steve Clines, Amanda Jordan, Jessica Jordan, Mark and Barbie McGriff, Dr. Clif Furukawa, MD, and Renee Furukawa, Gary and Susie Scott, Gary and Andrea Huehnerhoff, Carol Adelson
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