GHANA

Dear Family and Friends,

Ghana is fast approaching so I thought I should let you all know what I will be doing there. XLP has partnered with AACO, Ashanti Akim Community Organization for the past 14 or so years, working outside the city of Kumasi. If you can, look at a map of Ghana. Kumasi is about a 5 hour drive from the Capitol of Accra which is on the coast to the jungle in the north. The majority of the people living in and surrounding Kumasi are of the Ashanti tribe.

XLP and AACO have completed the building of a secondary school in the town of Danpong. The school includes 3 classrooms, 1 big meeting hall, and a health clinic. This school, now completed is only the 4th secondary school in the whole Ashanti Akim district of Ghana. Lack of education forces many young people to grow up and remain in poverty.

Besides the work in the classroom, XlP spends alot of its time giving lessions, running clubs, giving the gospel message through skits, and spending time with the young people playing soccer and suprisingly frisbee!! Juaso and Agogo are other towns in this district in which we spend alot of time ministering.

This year XLP is the largest it has ever been so, the XLP team has been broken into two groups. I will be going with the second group, flying out of Heathrow on the morning of feburary 14th and comming home the 21st. Please pray specifically for Ghana and that I can get everything ready in time and can raise enough money to be fully prepared. I am in the process of getting a yellow fever shot but since I live in a highly African (Nigerian and Ghanan) section of London, I might be able to get this shot cheaply.

The total cost of this week long trip is about 700 Pounds so somewhere about 1250 dollars. And if you so feel led to give again, please send checks, made out to me, to my momma and she can take care of everything for me. Its great to have such a fantastic momma.

Thanks again for your prayers and support.

Julie