For this month’s update, I asked my wife Elizabeth to write about several deaf persons who have been attending our church faithfully: Akwasi is 24 years old and has been deaf since he was 7 when an illness stole his hearing. He has complete [...]
I thank God for a wonderful month here in Ghana. The month began with my staff, pastor, and family surprising me at lunchtime with a birthday party! Maria walked/took a taxi with the two youngest to get to the church. John and Joy took a br [...]
Paul received great joy from seeing and hearing about the steadfastness of those whom he had trained. “The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in healt [...]
This past Friday afternoon, my son John was in my office while I was finishing up some work before heading home. I commented to him, “I’m really thirsty,” but I had no water left in my office fridge. On the way home, we stopped at a small s [...]
Harvest Offering At the end of each year, most Ghanaian churches collect what is called a Harvest Offering. This year the theme for our Harvest Offering was “Investing in the Next Generation.” We are raising funds in order to build a school [...]
Happy New Year from the Sarver family! We want to thank the Lord for giving us a wonderful year serving Him here in Ghana. Let me share with you some blessings from just the past month. John Sarver preaching to a teen in Kumasi, Ghana Ete [...]
Our Loss but Heaven's Gain Richard Osei (1958-2015) In 1958, Richard Osei was born into a Muslim family here in Ghana. He trusted Christ after reading the Gospel message in The Sword of the Lord newspaper. Also in that paper, he read many [...]
Update on Joy Our daughter's pediatric neurologist in the States has now been able to review the EEG and blood tests done here in Ghana. Based on the results, Joy’s level of epilepsy medication should stay the same, and her condition does n [...]
Huge Answers to Prayer Yesterday Joy and I returned from a successful trip to Accra. There she was able to get an EEG to check the condition of her epilepsy. (We are still awaiting the results. The results will determine whether we need to [...]
Friend Day Instead of promoting four special Sundays as we normally do each March and September, we decided to plan one special day for the last Sunday in September. We put up a banner in our church weeks in advance that read, “Friend Day [...]
