{"id":2433,"date":"2023-01-14T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2024-09-24T00:31:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:31:02","slug":"chereponi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2023\/01\/14\/chereponi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chereponi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A quick summary of a long day. It is easy to forget the remoteness of Northern Ghana. After a short one hour flight from Accra we were in Tamale, looking for our bags. It is hot and dry. No rain. No clouds. Just equatorial sun and smiling faces. Look a Ghanaian in the eyes and offer an energetic Good Morning, and a beaming smile will always be returned. Beth and I decided it was the opposite of walking down a the street of a large American city. In Ghana, people are eager to engage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joanna and Mike arrive in Tamale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ok… a bit of a shock… Ray’s truck was already full when we arrived with 3 enormous suitcases and 4 smaller bags. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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But we all squeezed in, and went to lunch. After a quick meal, I took over driving the 4.5 hrs to Chereponi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mike and Joanna are doing great on their first trip to Ghana. They have learned our expression “That’s just the way I like it,” which we eagerly call out after someone points out something uncomfortable or difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took over driving from Ray, so he could get a break. He had driven all the way from Accra days earlier. Driving is always a challenge (and that’s just the way I like it). Even with intense focus on the road, looking for hidden holes, speed bumps, and goats, I occasionally struck a hole hard enough for Mike to get bumped out of his seat and whack his head on the roof of the truck (which is just the way he likes it). We were thinking I was maybe averaging about 16 miles per roof whack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the day we noticed many brush fires set by hunters waiting to club grasscutters<\/a> and large rats. Ray explained it is not legal, and very dangerous, since the fires can easily get out of control and burn huts and towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we drove by, local hunters set fire to the bush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A short celebration and dance after Clement receives his backpack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clement is one of the OneWay Africa missionaries. He spends his days engaging with the people of Chereponi, a village among the Anufo people. He met with the pastors and leaders of the churches in the area to prepare them for our recordings. People practiced telling their testimonies, Bible Stories and teachings as well as Community Health Information. Oh, and of course one of our favorites of the recording trips, the choirs! Today we presented him with a gift from OneWay, a “Vista 500,” which contains everything needed to show videos in the bush from Jesus Film Project and LUMO Gospel Films. In the evenings, he rides his motor bike off into remote villages to show these movies. Good job, Clement, preparing the people for the recordings, and sharing God’s love with the Anufo people!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My heart is full. I’m prepared for Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick summary of a long day. It is easy to forget the remoteness of Northern Ghana. After a short one hour flight from Accra we were in Tamale, looking for our bags. It is hot and dry. No rain. No clouds. Just equatorial sun and smiling faces. Look a Ghanaian in the eyes and … Continue reading Chereponi<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-jan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}