Five! Yesterday our team was commissioned at Hope Community Church and then we had our final, family picnic before we leave.  Wow!  The days are flying by! Four! As we prepare to leave, it usually becomes very evident that we have an enemy that does not want us to go and share Jesus with others. […]

Six! Today, please pray for our missionary partner and leader of Arm of Hope, Philip Darko.  While our team is preparing to do just a few short weeks of ministry to the children at camp, this is the life work of Philip and his wife Hannah.  Brother Philip is involved with many aspects of ministering […]

7 days! One week! This morning my son reminded me that in exactly one week, we will be in the car and driving to the airport in New York. Tonight at dinner my husband reminded me that in exactly one week, we will be in the air and on our way! Our flight is scheduled […]

8. Eight days left! We are almost ready to go! One thing we do to hopefully bless the ministry in Ghana is collect supplies for the camp and raise the funds to purchase them. While we endeavor to be extremely cost efficient and frugal, we will be serving over 400 campers this year, so taking […]

Nine! Nine days until we fly.  Would you pray for our team today? Here we are:  Tim Ainsley, Sherrie Ainsley, Rachel Bennage, Kaitlyn Black, Maddie Conley, Brenda Martin, Devan Turner, Caden Zimmerman, Mike Zimmerman, Cheryl Zimmerman, Greg Grove, Denise Grove, Colton Grove, and Dennis Bartch. As we have been meeting as a team, we’ve all […]

10. Ten. TEN! That’s the number of days until we fly to Ghana. I’d like to invite all of you to be a part of our team.  Though 14 people may be traveling to Ghana for the camp, the team is so much bigger than that! Financial supporters. Friends in Ghana. Encouragers. Fundraisers. Missionary partners. […]

I am very excited to introduce to you the 2017 Ghana camp team!  We are pretty thrilled about the fact that God has brought us together with our different backgrounds, talents, gifts, and experiences to work with our missionary partners in Ghana this summer. Tim and Sherrie Ainsley…God has given them a real heart for […]

Looking. Seeing. Recently the difference between these two ideas that seem so similar, hit me hard. Last weekend as I prepared for the Hope Overflows event where our church would participate in writing letters to children in Ghana who need sponsors, I had a very meaningful conversation. You see, usually when I display pictures of […]

Encouraging words.  They go a long way, don’t they?  Sometimes a few, small, sincere words of encouragement can get me through an entire week.  Life is often hard, but encouragement lifts the weight of struggle. This past Sunday at Hope Community Church in Elizabethtown, our church family did a different kind of “church”.  To me […]

“Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.  With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”  Ephesians 6:18 And that includes the Lord’s precious children in the slum of Accra, Ghana! Would you take a few minutes to pray for these […]